unstale

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ stale.

Adjective

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unstale (comparative more unstale, superlative most unstale)

  1. Not stale; fresh.
    • 1907, Robert William Service, The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses, page 123:
      Along the road to Anywhere, when each day had its story; When time was yet our vassal, and life's jest was still unstale;
    • 1954, William Faulkner, A Fable:
      ...they were her lovers, and when they went to war, it was for glory to lay before the altar of that unchaste unstale bed” (896).
    • 2007, Michael O'Neill, The All-Sustaining Air, page 51:
      That final image is Romantic just as Wallace Stevens thought the romantic should be — that is, unstale and unspent, excitingly drawn from the present yet impossible to grasp without a sense of a child as not trailing Wordsworthian or Rousseauist clouds of glory.
    • 2014, Paul Di Filippo, The Great Jones Coop Ten Gigasoul Party, page 51:
      He hurried away up the beach, leaving Elizabeth alone with George, who smelled like sun and salt and unstale sweat .

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