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rustless

American  
[ruhst-lis] / ˈrʌst lɪs /

adjective

  1. free from rust.

  2. rustproof.


Etymology

Origin of rustless

First recorded in 1835–45; rust + -less

Example Sentences

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Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mercury has lavish, rustless steel grilles, widely flared fenders protected by heavy bumpers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It should be suspended by rustless black chains and eyebolts passing through the lower rails.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

For they contain rustless iron, and where iron does not rust man cannot live, nor can any other animal or any plant.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.

And stacks of material—sheet steel, deckplate, girders—and contragravity lifters and construction machines, all left on jobs that were never finished, the bright rustless metal dulled by forty years of rain and windblown red dust.

From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam

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