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Unpressed

adjective

(of clothing) not smoothed with heat.

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Etymology of 'Unpressed'

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"Unpressed" Quotes from Famous Books

... trifle too full. Although he belonged to one of the evangelical denominations, the Rev. Mr. Calthrop affected clothing very like the regulation costume of the Episcopalian clergy; but this clothing was now worn and torn and dusty. Buttons were gone here and there; the knees of the unpressed trousers were baggy and beginning to be ragged, and the sole of one shoe flapped as he walked. He had a three days' growth of ...

— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis

... forest depths, by foot unpressed, Are not more sinless than thy breast; The holy peace that fills the air Of those calm ...

— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various

... quiet, through green lanes that were seldom disturbed except when the house of God was open. A little footpath was worn upon the verdant turf, and the green was unpressed elsewhere, save where some passive burden was silently borne to its lowly bed; there the somber wheels crushed down the blades that lifted up their heads to the glad sunlight, as if it were wrong to live and grow on while ...

— The Elm Tree Tales • F. Irene Burge Smith

... of money on mortgages, owner of Northern cut-over land, was a hesitant man in unpressed soft gray clothes, with bulging eyes in a milky face. His wife had bleached cheeks, bleached hair, bleached voice, and a bleached manner. She wore her expensive green frock, with its passementeried bosom, bead tassels, and gaps between the buttons down ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

Words linked to "Unpressed" : wrinkled, unironed