Starproof

Quick meaning: Starproof is an adjective meaning (poetic, nonce word) Impervious to the light of the stars.

Meaning

(poetic, nonce word) Impervious to the light of the stars.

Example Sentences

He said, 'Come on, babe,' and led her to the starproof shadow of a flowering daphne.

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.

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.

two hundred-some farm boys and city slickers scared spineless in the snakes' swamp—knew it was drowning to be feared, in the slippery dark, burdened with fifty-pound packs rifles helmets cartridgebelts canteens bayonets and night-blind eyes, under a starproof vegetable roof of shingling fronds and fans.

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