undusted

The quadroon sat for hours before Edna’s palette, patient as a savage, while the house-maid took charge of the children, and the drawing-room went undusted.

One was a cleaning of the books and stacks, undusted for 75 years.

Trofie are inch-long, irregularly-shaped corkscrews that when cooked look like undusted Cheetos.

From Hernandez to HoJo, no upper lip went undusted at Shea in the mid-80s, and even though there was no hashtag to justify it, the Mets mustache remains one of New York sports' most iconic trademarks.

Laughter, it becomes apparent, is this incredible woman’s lifeline: The memories and anecdotes she’s told a thousand times still make her wrinkled face light up when she remembers a punchline or conjures up an image that had been sitting for years undusted in her memory archive.