Untanned

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not tanned

    "by nature, his manner was not unrefined, his frame slender, and appeared the more so from the broad, untanned frontlet of his brow, tangled over with a disheveled mass of raven curls, throwing a still deeper tinge upon a complexion like that of a shriveled berry."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not converted to leather by a tanning agent wordnet

Synonyms

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unbronzedunbronzed

Antonyms

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tanned

Example

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"by nature, his manner was not unrefined, his frame slender, and appeared the more so from the broad, untanned frontlet of his brow, tangled over with a disheveled mass of raven curls, throwing a still deeper tinge upon a complexion like that of a shriveled berry."

Etymology

From un- + tanned.

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