ungarment

English

Etymology

un- + garment

Verb

ungarment (third-person singular simple present ungarments, present participle ungarmenting, simple past and past participle ungarmented)

  1. (dated) To undress.
    • 1851, Robert Southey, The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL.D.:
      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.
    • 1898, James Vila Blake, Sonnets, page 199:
      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;
    • 1931, George Sidney Hellman, Peacock's Feather, page 178:
      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.

Noun

ungarment (plural ungarments)

  1. (rare) Undergarment.
    • 1919, The Corset and Underwear Review - Volume 14, page 74:
      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.
    • 1997, David Ira Cleary, Old Immortality, page 375:
      He slips his fingers beneath my ungarments, moves one hand between my buttocks and now reaching down brushes my sex.
    • 2004, Richard J. Hewitt, Repossessing the Land, page 243:
      Spiritually speaking, the ungarment represents the righteousness of Christ, without which we would never be invited to the wedding in the first place.
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