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Unfamed, un-fāmd′, adj. not made famous.

Some years ago it was greatly praised by John Burroughs, who came over from America to hear the British songsters, his thoughts running chiefly on the nightingale, blackcap, throstle, and blackbird; and he was astonished to find that this unfamed warbler, about which the ornithologists had said little and the poets nothing, was one of the most delightful vocalists, and had a "delicious warble."

O black singers, gone, forgot, unfamed, You—you alone, of all the long, long line Of those who've sung untaught, unknown, unnamed, Have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.

Spare, spectacled, reddish-bearded and red-nosed; partially deaf; clad in a black overcoat and battered brown hat, his unprepossessing figure was like the popular notion of the hardworking, unfamed inventor.

To answer his own question, George Houston is busily directing a group of unfamed singers, called the American Music Theater, in a small building in a Los Angeles park.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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