sunproof
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sunproof (comparative more sunproof, superlative most sunproof)
- impervious to the rays of the sun
- 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women:
- There once a charnel-house, now a vast cave,
Over whose brow a pale and untrod grove
Throws out her heavy shade, the mouth thick arms
Of darksome yew, sun-proof, for ever choke
References
[edit]- “sunproof”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.