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Meanings of unornamented in English

Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.

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        1
        The ceiling consisted of bare unornamented joists and cross-beams of ilex wood.
        The Duchesse of Langeais
        2
        Here, red and unornamented as the house itself, the future Egyptologist was born.
        Idolatry: A Romance
        3
        His dress, from the rough pea-jacket to the unornamented moccasins, was severely plain.
        The Silent Places
        4
        He even grasped the reason for the massive, stark, unornamented keep.
        The Pirates of Ersatz
        5
        He wore a gray business suit, a white shirt, an unornamented maroon tie.
        The burglar who liked to quote kipling
        6
        The windows are unornamented, and the nave has no triforium.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        7
        His house was bare and unornamented, but of vast proportions.
        The Well of Saint Clare
        8
        Her hair is unornamented, as are her wrists and ears.
        The day the falls stood still
        9
        The idol the natives worshipped for him was a slender, unornamented staff twelve feet long.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        10
        Postmartin was examining his prize on an unornamented lectern.
        Broken Homes
        11
        Her brow, bare and unornamented, threw an air of severe grandeur on her whole countenance.
        Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
        12
        She had a fine head of hair, and she took great pleasure in showing it unornamented.
        Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 4 / Being se...
        13
        The blank, unornamented coop had nothing about it of that oriental voluptuousness one reads of so much.
        The Innocents Abroad
        14
        A simple, unornamented grave there causes more tears to flow than the gaudy splendor of a cathedral interment.
        The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete / The...
        15
        But, compared with the domestic architecture of Augsburg, Munich, and Vienna, the houses are low, small, and unornamented.
        A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France an...
        16
        They might as well say that they prefer square, plain, unornamented houses made from square blocks of stone.
        Pushing to the Front
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