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English
Etymology
From un- + shut.
Pronunciation
Verb
unshut (third-person singular simple present unshuts, present participle unshutting, simple past and past participle unshut)
- (now rare) To open (a door, window etc.).
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:ANd anone as he had vnshet the wyndowe the enchaūtement was gone / thēne he knewe hym self that he had done amys / Allas he sayd that I haue lyued so long now I am shamed / Soo thenne he gat his swerd in his hand and said thow traitresse what arte thow that I haue layn by alle this nyghte / thow shalt dye ryghte here of my handes- (please add an English translation of this quotation)