unpinionedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unpinioned

1. Of a bird: not having the pinions of its wings cut off, or its wings otherwise disabled, to prevent it from flying.
   • 1759 November 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Miscellaneous”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], number IV, new edition, London: […] W[illiam] Lane, […], published c. 1790, OCLC 23028200, page 97:

     [W]hile the vvorks of others fly like unpinioned ſvvans, I find my ovvn move as heavily as a nevv-plucked gooſe.