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pristine adjective [ ˈprɪstiːn ]

• in its original condition; unspoilt.
• "pristine copies of an early magazine"
Origin: mid 16th century (in the sense ‘original, former, primitive and undeveloped’): from Latin pristinus ‘former’. The senses ‘unspoilt’ and ‘spotless’ date from the 1920s.


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