Meaning of starproof | Babel Free

Definitions

Impervious to the light of the stars.

nonce-word, not-comparable, poetic

Examples

“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.”

“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 the yews beside it.”

“the same nights unfold, now moonless and starshot, now bathed in light⟳ so that from Sorrento to Ischia, from Capri to Posilipo the water is one pulsating shield of silver; 'that magic clair de lune of Vertalin's, shimmerings of pallid light⟳ upon the marble gods and goddesses in the sleeping silence of the starproof trees,' drenched with the scent of lemon bloom;”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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