Unglove

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove a glove or gloves (from). intransitive, transitive

    "undated, John Keats, Sonnet to a Lady seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand, / Since I was tangled in thy beauty's web, / And snared by the ungloving of thine hand."

Example

More examples

"undated, John Keats, Sonnet to a Lady seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand, / Since I was tangled in thy beauty's web, / And snared by the ungloving of thine hand."

Etymology

From Middle English ungloven, equivalent to un- + glove.

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