unshrubbed

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ shrubbed

Adjective

unshrubbed (not comparable)

  1. Without shrubs.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      Hail, many-colour’d messenger, that ne'er
      Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
      Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
      Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,
      And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
      My bosky acres and my unshrubb’d down,
      Rich scarf to my proud earth;
    • 1977, Hortense Calisher, “In a Fiery Glade”, in On Keeping Women, New York: Arbor House, pages 153–154:
      From the spot he’s left her in, a blank, unshrubbed bit of service-yard where the earth is worn bald, she can see printed in black cut-out and lamp-glow, her own house.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unshrubbed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)