unenclosed

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ enclosed.

Adjective

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unenclosed (comparative more unenclosed, superlative most unenclosed)

  1. Not enclosed.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 14:
      Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
  2. Relating to the exposure of elements that are typically unexposed.
    The body of a flatbed is commonly unenclosed.