unpaddedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpadᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈpædəd/ Not padded (in various senses); esp. not fitted or surrounded with padding.
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1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 258 Half of them (unpadded, shoulderbent, pallid-lipp'd, feeble-jointed wretches) appearing..haggard well-worn strumpets of Thirty-eight or Forty.
1808 Sporting Mag. Aug. 244/2 The Somersetshire men insisted on playing the first day one blood, that they might the less expose their unpadded arms.
1882 Trans. Homœopathic Med. Soc. N.Y. 1880–81 16 287 Think of placing an acute mania case in an unpadded, cement-lined dark cell.
1904 Bk. News Monthly (U.S.) June 1089/2 The brief biographies are informing and unpadded.
1969 Surv. Iron Castings (Council Ironfoundry Assoc.) 28/1 Unrisered, unpadded, unchilled junctions show various amounts of shrinkage.
2007 Alaska Mag. Dec. 36/1 My rear met the unpadded surface with a thump.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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