araphorostic

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English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄραφος (áraphos, not sewed) +‎ -ic. Cognate with English rhapsody.

Adjective

araphorostic (not comparable)

  1. Seamless, unsewn.
    • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, or Adventures of a Gentleman (I. xxxiii. 292)
      Do you think, because you are as impervious as an araphorostic shoe, that I, John Russelton, am equally impenetrable?
    • 2014 September, IY Gogin, MS Vdovets, “Geosites of International Significance in the UNESCO WHS Lena Pillars Nature Park (Sakha Republic, Russia)”, in Geoheritage, volume 6, number 3:
      On the territory under consideration, the lower boundary of the Atdabanian is marked by the appearance of Olenellina, early araphorostic trilobites . . .