单词 | unwrinkled |
释义 | unwrinkledadj. Free from wrinkles; smooth. In frequent use from c1820, esp. with ‘brow’ or ‘forehead’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [adjective] > wrinkle > not having unwrinkled1547 smooth-faced1591 smooth-skinned1611 unpleated1612 unbunched1615 sleek1638 sleekyc1725 unploughed1826 unlined1840 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vi. 36 b The forhead smoth, cheerefull and vnwrynckled. 1592 Sir Thomas More iii. i. 172 Mercie, whose maiestick browe Should be vnwrinckled. 1643 W. Davenant Vnfortunate Lovers iii. D 4 b Thy brow Is quite unwrinckled. 1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 49 The world's. One, Round, Æternall yeare, Whose full, and all-nuwrinckled [sic] face Nor sinkes nor swells with Time, or Place. 1783 W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 283 So the liberal vest In large, distinct, unwrinkled folds should fly. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 4 The wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright. 1801 Coleridge Fragm., The Moon 5 Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, un~wrinkled Lake. 1864 W. C. Bryant Sella 510 Still she kept her fair Unwrinkled features. 1881 Longmans' Notes on Bks. 31 Aug. 83/2 The unwrinkled portrait which Cromwell feared that Lely might draw of himself. 1885 W. H. White Mark Rutherford's Deliv. vii Her dress was unwrinkled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1547 |
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