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Etymology

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From un- +‎ yellow.

Adjective

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unyellow (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Not yellow (in various senses).
    • May 22, 1901, Ambrose Bierce, letter to George Sterling
      I'm glad the Journal is not to have it, for it now goes into the Washington Post — and the Post into the best houses here and elsewhere — a good, clean unyellow paper.
    • 1994, Grace Livingston Hill, The City of Fire, page 29:
      It was not in his unyellow soul to go back on his word without refunding the money, and a dollar of it was already spent to the Chinese fund, to say nothing of sundaes and sodas and whips.