Meanings
adjectiveundrossed (not comparable)
- not comparableFree from dross.
Youth has not yet completely gone with its beauty, grace, and strength; nor has age at all come with its decrepitudes; though the finest undrossed parts of it—its mildness and its wisdom—have gone on before, as decorous chamberlains precede the sedan of some crutched king.
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
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“undrossed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrossed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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