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Here are some internal habits and hacks you can adopt that tell people you’re more experienced than your line-free face and unsilvered temples suggest:

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

But the butcher got paid afterwards in real money—a half-sovereign and two half-crowns, and seven unsilvered pennies.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

It therefore becomes essential to use a less brilliant reflected beam for the comparison, and this is secured by using as a mirror a plain unsilvered glass.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.

We gave up the steeplechase and she had the doglegs taken out, her fur removed, her eyes unsilvered to a hazel that was pretty and as fathomable as the silver had been inscrutable.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory