unbarred
Americanadjective
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not provided or fastened with a bar or bars.
an unbarred door.
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not marked with stripes or bands.
Etymology
Origin of unbarred
Example Sentences
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On that magic coast, Where Raleigh fought with fate, Or where that Devon ghost Unbarred the Golden Gate, No dark, strange, ear-ringed men Beat in from sea again?
From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred
But if for this he shuts against her The heart that's shining in his eyes, She'll bring the gift that for the Peri Unbarred the gate of paradise.
From Debris Selections from Poems by Wagner, Madge Morris
"Unbarred be all your gates, and opened wide, Till she who honors women shall come in!"
From A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia by Dall, Caroline Healey
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
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