ungarment

noun, verb — 2 senses

ungarment

noun

Etymology From un- + garment.

1

Rare An undergarment.

  • To manufacture a complete line of silk ungarments, Appel & Pudnos, Inc., a new firm, has been organized with offices at 22 East Twenty-first Street, where an attractive new line is now being shown.1919, The Corset and Underwear Review - Volume 14, page 74:
  • He slips his fingers beneath my ungarments, moves one hand between my buttocks and now reaching down brushes my sex.1997, David Ira Cleary, Old Immortality, page 375:
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  • Spiritually speaking, the ungarment represents the righteousness of Christ, without which we would never be invited to the wedding in the first place.2004, Richard J. Hewitt, Repossessing the Land, page 243:

ungarment

verb

Etymology From un- + garment.

1

Dated To undress.

  • With shouts of honor here they gather'd round me, Ungarmented my limbs, and in a net With softest feathers lined, a pleasant couch, They laid and left me.1851, Robert Southey, The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL.D.:
  • But this thou canst not do, dear spirit rare: One beauty is of color, form and look, And one thine angel loveliness of soul: Thou canst ungarment neither;1898, James Vila Blake, Sonnets, page 199:
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  • So that when you made me ungarment myself, I knew it was not so much the wise man who resented the semblance of being caught by a peacock's feather, as the strong man who, at the very moment of passion, could still dictate.1931, George Sidney Hellman, Peacock's Feather, page 178:

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