a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1687. J. Reynolds, Deaths Vis., Pref. (1713), 3. Tis true such Matter is Restive, Refractory and Unpolishable Enough.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1822), I. 170. The dukes outside was unpolished, his inside unpolishable.
1836. Landor, Pericles & Asp., Wks. 1846, II. 416. A coarse grained, unpolishable people.
1863. Hawthorne, Old Home (1879), 344. The unpolishable ruggedness of the native character.