shrinkageproof
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]shrinkageproof (comparative more shrinkageproof, superlative most shrinkageproof)
- Resistant to shrinkage.
- 1938, United States. Forest Service, Martha Bensley Bruère, Taming Our Forests, page 84:
- From the fireproof, shrinkageproof plywood house will come the intermittent buzz of the electric refrigerator keeping the farmer's frozen dessert hard till he comes in from the barn […]
- 1949, United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, World Trade in Commodities (volume 7, parts 1-8, page 13)
- The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has been investigating the possibility of making wool shrinkageproof by pregnating and coating fibers with plastics material such as methyl nethacrylate.