runproof

[ruhn-proof]

adjective

1. made to resist unraveling, runs, or running, running, as stockings or dyes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of runproof¹

run + -proof

Example Sentences

Those years yielded in time a national unity on matters of foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace in almost runproof harmony.

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Two hosiery companies are racing neck and neck to be first on the market with stockings that are both seamless and runproof.

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But he was smiling when he said it; though a new knitting process makes the stockings runproof, it does not make them holeproof.

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