Find the word definition

Crossword clues for untanned

Wiktionary
untanned

a. Not tanned

WordNet
untanned

adj. not converted to leather by a tanning agent; "a whip made of untanned hide" [ant: tanned]

Usage examples of "untanned".

His only garments were a species of waistcoat and rough trousers of untanned guanaco hide.

He just sat there and eyed Toolie up and down, not showing any expression at all on his very clean and untanned face.

A pale stripe of untanned forehead shone yellow in the uplight from the lamp flame.

He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet.

With her right hand holding her left arm behind her untanned back, the lesser nymphet, a diaphanous darling, would be all eyes, as the pavonine sun was all eyes on the gravel under the flowering trees, while in the midst of that oculate paradise, my freckled and raffish lass skipped, repeating the movements of so many others I had gloated over on the sun-shot, watered, damp-smelling sidewalks and ramparts of ancient Europe.

His hose of red cloth vanished into boots of untanned leather, laced in front and turned down at the knees, and completed in him the general appearance of a mercenary in time of peace, in spite of which the six nobles, in that place of paradoxes, bared their heads anew, and stood in attitudes of deferential attention.

We seized our rifles, and slipping on our veldtschoons, that is shoes made of untanned hide, ran out of the scherm.