What is "unplayed"

Usage examples of "unplayed".

But as the summer passed, as her work load increased, and as her harp remained unplayed, she began to sense a faint, desperate fluttering in her mind, as though a caged bird were battering itself against the iron grillwork of its prison.

Chesterfields grouped around the almost new Gothic fireplace in which stood a display of wintry sedge, by the unplayed, untuned harpsichord and the unused rosewood music stands, by the heavy velvet curtains, loosely restrained by an orange and blue tasseled rope, framing a partial view of cloudless sky and the yellow and gray mottled terrace where chamomile and feverfew grew between the paving cracks.

And that hitch of breath, it seemed to Dylan, was Arthur in a nutshell, making such show of a card unplayed that he tipped his whole hand.