sunproof

English

Etymology

From sun +‎ -proof.

Adjective

sunproof (comparative more sunproof, superlative most sunproof)

1. impervious to the rays of the sun
   • 1605–1606 (first performance), Iohn [i.e., John] Marston, The Wonder of Women: Or The Tragedie of Sophonisba, […], London: […] Iohn Windet and are to be sold [by William Cotton] […], published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     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

• “sunproof”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• unproofs