unpressed
/ʌnˈprɛst
/adjective
1(Of clothing) unironed: his shoes were unpolished and his suits unpressed...
- Extreme ironing involves clambering up mountains and trees, among other activities, armed with iron, ironing board and unpressed laundry.
- The young men regarded this tanned adult with his unpressed appearance and his meadow of fair hair floating in all directions, and felt threatened and uneasy.
- This looks like the real thing; unpressed and natural looking.
2Not shaped or obtained by pressing or pressure: soft, unpressed, cheeses...
- The cheeses were most often sour-milk cheeses: pultost is a ripened, unpressed curd cheese with a strong taste; gammelost is a semi-hard cheese with a grainy texture, dark brown in colour.
- Only the free-run juice from unpressed grapes and that which flows from the first pressing is used.
- Vegetable rennet is used to separate the curds, which are left uncooked and unpressed, resulting in a pale-straw coloured, semi-soft cheese.
