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unbrambled en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + brambled.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not covered with brambles.
    • As we have a near-tragedy here as well as sport of the rude and hardy life, we'll be at the heart of our tale with as swift a pace as one may run along an unbrambled trail. A long, lank, dory-form Alaskan canoe lay screened in[…] 1908, Field and Stream, page 661:
    • The pins with cross-hatched, or brambled, heads share this feature with the so-called thistle brooches […] It may be noted that the side of the thistle brooches which came into contact with the dress was often left umbrambled, […] 1922, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 83:
    • Was there no short-cut, no unbrambled passage? I must first immerse myself deep in the wells of experience. 1930, George Sylvester Viereck, Paul Eldridge, Salome, the Wandering Jewess:
    • I checked with his doctor at the clinic, and was provided the unbrambled version of Grandma's viewpoint: Dad was in carbon dioxide narcosis, caused by his lungs' failure to rid themselves of their after-breath wastes. 1980 February 19, Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN: