sunproof

English

Etymology

sun + -proof

Adjective

sunproof (comparative more sunproof, superlative most sunproof)

  1. 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

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