unwrinkled
Adjective
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Adjective
unwrinkled
- Without wrinkles.
- an unwrinkled face
- 1649, Leonard Willan (translator), The Phrygian Fabulist or, Aesop's Fables, London: Nicolas Bourn, 101. “The Shipwrackct Shepherd,” p. 84,
- Emtie escaping, home return’d again;
- A few daies after to the same place came:
- Where hee beheld the Sea’s unwrinkled face,
- Smile again on him with alluring Grace.
- 1832, William Wordsworth, “The Gleaner (Suggested by a picture)” in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Volume 3, p. 253,
- Where pity, to the mind conveyed
- In pleasure, is the darkest shade
- That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings
- From his smoothly gliding wings.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, 1992, Chapter Six, p. 61,
- Muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the truculent look of a bad child’s, the mouth held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half petulant.
- 1953, C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the Atropos, London: Michael Joseph, Chapter 9,
- The lieutenant of the watch, his telescope quite dazzling with polished brass and pipe-clayed twine, wore spotless and unwrinkled white trousers; the buttons on his well-fitting coat winked in the sunshine.
- Synonyms: wrinkle-free, wrinkleless
- Simple past tense and past participle of unwrinkle
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