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unyellow en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + yellow.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, uncommon) Not yellow (in various senses).
   • May 22, 1901, Ambrose Bierce, letter to George Sterling I'm glad the Journal is not to have it, for it now goes into the Washington Post — and the Post into the best houses here and elsewhere — a good, clean unyellow paper.
   • It was not in his unyellow soul to go back on his word without refunding the money, and a dollar of it was already spent to the Chinese fund, to say nothing of sundaes and sodas and whips. 1994, Grace Livingston Hill, The City of Fire, page 29:

unyellow en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + yellow.

Meanings

1. To remove yellow color from.

Forms

Deriveds

unyellower