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stainless

[ steyn-lis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

stainless

/ ˈsteɪnlɪs /

resistant to discoloration, esp discoloration resulting from corrosion; rust-resistant
stainless steel
having no blemish
a stainless reputation

First recorded in 1580–90; stain + -less

Then, from a pocket inside his camouflage top, he pulled a hidden stainless steel flask.

These sculptures are in his typical style—figures molded out of colorful stainless steel with striking luminosity.

Manufacturers, says the Wall Street Journal, are on a full-fledged hunt for the next stainless steel.

Are we finally nearing the end of stainless steel's kitchen dominance?

"We really wanted stainless," says the crestfallen pair, and trudge back out the door.

The stainless image fearing to disturb,So faithfully reflected in my breast;As winds disturb the mirror of the lake.

He, a Deacon of the Baptist Church, and a man of stainless repute at home, to have his head shaved and drummed out of camp.

Swanson reluctantly followed him through the tangled aisles of stainless steel columns and tanks.

Her life, passed in two of the most dissolute Courts in Europe, was from first to last stainless.

It was a little stainless-steel aerosol canister that looked for all the world like a pepper-spray self-defense unit.

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