unwindowed
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unwindowed (not comparable)
- Without windows.
- 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty[1], London: R. Blamire, Volume 2, Section 21, p. 125:
- The chambers unwindowed, and almost unroofed, fluttering with rags of ancient tapestry, are the haunt of daws, and pigeons; which burst out in clouds of dust, when the doors are opened […]
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford[2], New York: Carroll & Graf, published 1995, Part Two, p. 169:
- They were pushed, with some courtesy shown in the light or token nature of the push, through a hatch into unwindowed darkness where a candle set on a black stone showed walls of ill-hewn blocks […]
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]unwindowed
- simple past and past participle of unwindow