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Etymology

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un- +‎ quarried

Adjective

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unquarried (not comparable)

  1. Not quarried.
    • 1888, Harry A. Lewis, Hidden Treasures[1]:
      The granite for his monument lies unquarried nor is its erection needed.
    • 1912, Charles Warren Stoddard, In the Footprints of the Padres[2]:
      He touched the heights of the Misty City and the sea-fog that had walled it in through the night as with walls of unquarried marble--albeit the eaves had dripped in the darkness as after a summer shower--and anon the opaque vapors dissolved and fled away.