ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Free from wrinkles; smooth.
In freq. use from c. 1820, esp. with ‘brow’ or ‘forehead.’
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex., I. vi. 36 b. The forhead smoth, cheerefull and vnwrynckled.
1592. Sir T. More, III. i. 172. Mercie, whose maiestick browe Should be vnwrinckled.
1643. Davenant, Unfort. Lovers, III. D 4 b. Thy brow Is quite unwrinckled.
a. 1649. Crashaw, Glorious Epiphany, 28. The world’s one, round, Æternall year, Whose full and all-unwrinkled face Nor sinks nor swells with time or place.
1783. Mason, Du Fresnoy’s Art Paint., 283. So the liberal vest In large, distinct, unwrinkled folds should fly.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 4. The wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright.
1801. Coleridge, Fragm., The Moon, 5. Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake.
1864. Bryant, Sella, 510. Still she kept her fair Unwrinkled features.
1881. Longmans’ Notes on Bks., 31 Aug., 83/2. The unwrinkled portrait which Cromwell feared that Lely might draw of himself.
1885. [W. H. White], Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance, vii. Her dress was unwrinkled.
fig. 1582. Bentley, Mon. Matrones, 74. To leane to … God, and his smooth and vnwrinkled Church.
1648. Crashaw, Delights Muses, Musicks Duell, 39. A Nightingale … Trayles her plaine Ditty in one long-spun note,… A cleare unwrinckled song.
1822. Coleridge, Lett., Conv., etc. II. 79. I am, with unwrinkled confidence,… Your affectionate friend.
