unfamed

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An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The writer knows the West from only fifteen years of life and travel there; yet with that imperfect knowledge cannot recall a single fur post without some tradition of an unfamed Pocahontas.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

They had told us overnight that a small steamer plied every other day through Noto's unfamed inland sea, leaving the capital early in the morning, and touching shortly after at Wakura.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival