starproof
starproof adjective: impervious to the light of the stars.
Adjective
starproof (not comparable)
- Impervious to the light of the stars.
- O'er the smooth enamelled green, / Where no print of step hath been, / Follow mc, as I sing / And touch the warbled string, / Under the shady roof / Of branching elm star-proof.1634, John Milton, Arcades, Song II, lines 84 to 89
- The thick, unbroken cloud that covered all the sky was lifted toward the west above a deep of pure, pale yellow, while the glow of it streaming faintly over the creeping river, and the sodden meadows folded as in a mystic haze, the massed darkness of the church, and the "star-proof" blackness of...1891, Lanoe Falconer, Mademoiselle Ixe, page 58
Examples of starproof in a sentence
- He said, 'Come on, babe,' and led her to the starproof shadow of a flowering daphne.1988, Julian May, The Adversary:
- About the north-western point of that island there was a garden shadowed with oaks ten generations old and starproof cedars and delicate-limbed close-tufted strawberry-trees.2022, Eric Rücker Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses:
Origin of starproof
From star + -proof.
Questions about starproof
- What does starproof mean?
- Starproof means impervious to the light of the stars.
- How do you use starproof in a sentence?
- He said, 'Come on, babe,' and led her to the starproof shadow of a flowering daphne.
- What part of speech is starproof?
- Starproof is an adjective.
Words near starproof in the dictionary
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