Unwalled

(ppl.) a. [UN-¹ 8 and 9.] Not furnished with, or defended by, a wall.

c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well, 114. Slowthe makyth þe as a cyte vnwallyd.

1542.  Elyot, s.v. Arabia, The townes ar vnwalled, bycause the people doo alwaye lyue in peace.

1577.  Harrison, England, II. xiii. (1877), I. 255. The citie … laie then vnwalled.

1589.  Bigges, Sum. Drake’s W. Ind. Voy., 31. There was onely so much of this straight vnwalled, as might serue for the issuing of the horsemen.

1638.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 336. China has no fewer than … 2000 wall’d Townes; 4000 unwalled.

1690.  C. Nesse, O. & N. Test., I. 14. The soul now dwells in an unwalled, unfortifyed city.

1760–2.  Goldsm., Cit. W., cxxii. An unwalled town, called Islington.

1807.  J. Barlow, Columb., X. 540. Cities unwalled stand sparkling to the sun.

1860.  O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., xviii. The round unwalled horizon of the open sea.