Unglove

Quick meaning: Unglove is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive) To remove a glove or gloves (from).

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To remove a glove or gloves (from).

Example Sentences

A simple way to remember how to unglove safely is “glove to glove, skin to skin.”

Formerly, strict etiquette demanded that a person should unglove the hand before offering it to another in friendly greeting.

If ladies go from the ball-room to the supper-room for half an hour, they are not expected to unglove...But, if the supper be final, and close the evening's entertainment, they may unglove, if they please.

undated, John Keats, Sonnet to a Lady seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand, / Since I was tangled in thy beauty's web, / And snared by the ungloving of thine hand.

Word Forms

• ungloves
• ungloving
• ungloved

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unpalm, unhandcuff, unloose, eloign, behand, deglove.

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