unperforated
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The philatelists drafted a hot letter accusing the Postmaster General of slipping his friends sheets of unperforated commemorative stamps which promptly "assumed speculative value 10,000 times greater than their original value."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A "yellowish brown," meaning the brown with a yellowish cast, has been chronicled unperforated.
From History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America by Tiffany, John Kerr
Axes both perforated and unperforated have been found, but it is distinctly significant of an advancing culture, that the perforated axes outnumber the older form.
From Stonehenge Today and Yesterday by Sumner, Heywood
The pointed windows above are in two lancet divisions, surmounted by a trefoil; but the dividing masonry is not a mullion: it is the unperforated part of the wall.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell
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