Definitions

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  • adjective Not garbed; unclothed.

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  • adjective having removed clothing

Etymologies

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un- +‎ garbed

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Examples

  • Only beggars come to the trading fair ungarbed as if it were summer.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Only 'the ungarbed entity within' armed with the divine strength, courage and unconditional love can act in this world free from sorrow and 'armoured against all fear'.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Only 'the ungarbed entity within' armed with the divine strength, courage and unconditional love can act in this world free from sorrow and 'armoured against all fear'.

    The Issue Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Mintep looked me over in silence for a moment or two; when he had seen me before I had been dressed in my earthly clothes, now I was garbed (or ungarbed) like a Vepajan.

    Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

  • To elude this one would not be difficult; but to enter the village and search it would be practically impossible, garbed, or ungarbed, as he was.

    Tarzan the Untamed 1920

  • Marion, night-garbed or ungarbed, but with sword drawn, first hanging over her slumbering betrayer, then dealing the stroke of vengeance, and then falling -- white against the dark towers and the darker ravines at their base -- to her self-doomed judgment.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

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