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- adjective Obsolete form of
undressed . - verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
undress .
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Examples
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So Amyas went in, and found Frank laid on the outside of his bed not yet undrest.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Where! almost as much terrified as the wench; while she, more than half undrest, her petticoats in her hand, unable to speak distinctly, pointed up stairs.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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While expecting his arrival, She undrest Antonia, and conveyed her to Bed.
The Monk 2004
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The ladies were all in mobs [25] (how do you call it?), undrest; and it was the rainiest day that ever dripped; and I am weary; and it is now past eleven.
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I have undrest myself, and Sibby is going to comb my hair.
Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 Lucinda Lee Orr
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-- You think your galleries despotic when they call for an epilogue that is forgotten, and the actress who should speak it is undrest; or when they insist upon enlivening the last acts of Jane Shore with Roast Beef!
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-- You think your galleries despotic when they call for an epilogue that is forgotten, and the actress who should speak it is undrest; or when they insist upon enlivening the last acts of Jane Shore with Roast Beef!
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All were in the condition in which Actaeon saw Diana, when "all undrest the shining goddess stood," though they did not, when discovered, glow with:
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903
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The ladies were all in mobs [25] (how do you call it?), undrest; and it was the rainiest day that ever dripped; and I am weary; and it is now past eleven.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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The Emperor was accordingly undrest, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking-glass.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885
yarb commented on the word undrest
They showed me suits of every colour in the rainbow, and exposed to sale a great choice of plain cloths. These I threw aside with contempt, as thinking them too undrest...
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 15
September 12, 2008