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adjectiveunpared (not comparable)
- not comparableNot pared.
If unpared, wash and wipe each one to rub off the wool.
1903, Helen Campbell, The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking1 more example
Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum,--trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats.
1859, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859
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