| 单词 | airproof |
| 释义 | > as lemmasairproof (c) Similative, as air-clear, air-sweet, air-thin, air-white, etc., and limitative, as airproof.See also airtight adj. ΚΠ 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. Prol. sig. A4v Or els transpiercing ayre-cleare brightnes. 1835 W. Wordsworth Russ. Fugitive ii. vii, in Yarrow Revisited 130 So smooth was all within, air-proof And delicately lined. 1879 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 369 Waterproof but not air-proof..the great drawback of ordinary mackintoshes. 1882 G. Barlow Song-spray 150 Star-like air-soft touching of thine hand! 1918 E. Sitwell Clowns' Houses 11 Each in an air-white crinoline. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 67 A quiet, air-sweet October day. 1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakespeare xii. 141 There are echoes..some more air-thin than the sound of which they are a memory. 1969 S. Cotton & R. Barker Aviator Extraordinary iii. 33 The suit had a warm lining of thin fur, then a layer of airproof silk, then an outside layer of light Burberry material. 1992 D. G. Campbell Crystal Desert iv. 80 Under the muffling ice, the Southern Ocean precipitates its sediments and is air-clear. 2005 Aspire Apr. 11/1 (advt.) The look is pure matte perfection. The feel, blissfully air-soft. < as lemmas |
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