different between unwinnowed vs unwindowed

unwinnowed

English

Etymology

un- +? winnowed

Adjective

unwinnowed (not comparable)

  1. Not winnowed.

Translations

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unwindowed

English

Etymology 1

un- +? windowed

Adjective

unwindowed (not comparable)

  1. Without windows.
    • 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, London: R. Blamire, Volume 2, Section 21, p. 125,[1]
      The chambers unwindowed, and almost unroofed, fluttering with rags of ancient tapestry, are the haunt of daws, and pigeons; which burst out in clouds of dust, when the doors are opened []
    • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995, Part Two, p. 169,[2]
      They were pushed, with some courtesy shown in the light or token nature of the push, through a hatch into unwindowed darkness where a candle set on a black stone showed walls of ill-hewn blocks []

Etymology 2

Verb

unwindowed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of unwindow

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