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uncurtained en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + curtained.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without curtains.
    • Its uncurtained windows were red with the sinking sun, as though bloodshot and inflamed from a too long unlidded existence. 1870, Bret Harte, Notes by Flood and Field:
    • I was alone, but for my reflection in the uncurtained window. 1979, Angela Carter, “The Bloody Chamber”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: Henry Holt & Co., published 1996, page 129:

Synonyms

curtainless