ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not sprinkled with salt.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 366/2. On-powderyd, on-saltyd, insalitus.
1619[?]. Hieron, Wks., II. 484. As an vnpowdered masse of flesh is enough to poyson with the stench. Ibid., 492. Those particulars will, like so many vnpowdered morsels mixed in with others, make the whole lump to become vnsauory.
2. Not whitened with hair-powder.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 109, ¶ 6. My hair unpowdered, and my hat uncocked.
1847. Lytton, Lucretia, I. i. The dark hair which he wore unpowdered.
1898. R. S. Hichens, Londoners, vii. Various footmen, powdered and unpowdered.