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Soaring above the metallic drone of an unfretted lute called a tamboura, Shankar finished in a furious display of virtuosity that brought a cheering ovation from the audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her skin was extraordinarily unfretted for her forty-five years of life.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

He is no longer a vagrant, but at home in his own greenwood, yet as unfretted by the cares of housekeeping as he was by the heavy weariness of winter.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

I say "transparent," for they were as though the roseate blood shone through, and the wandering violet veins showed the clearness of the unfretted palm.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

The Albergo is a whitewashed building set round a courtyard; clean, unfretted by detail, full of dim, sweet spaces and gay domestic sounds.

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)