untrimmed

[ uhn-trimd ]

adjective

1. not trimmed.
2. Also Bookbinding. (of gathered sections of a book) having the bolts untrimmed by a guillotine or plow.

Other Words From

• un·trimmedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of untrimmed¹

First recorded in 1525–35; un- ¹ + trim ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

They went silently through the untrimmed garden, full of the pale-coloured flowers of spring.

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I thought of the ferocious Ercole with a long, untrimmed beard and unkempt hair falling over his face.

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His untrimmed beard, his bent head with its leonine mane of iron-gray hair, lent him an almost patriarchal look.

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The walls are built of untrimmed bare stones, but the crevices are stopped with earth to keep out the wind.

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The hind leg, or untrimmed ham, just as it is cut from the carcass, is shown in Fig. 20.

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