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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

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.

Swimming tights should be wrung out dry, either by hand or by a wringer kept near the swimming place, and hung out on a rope or rustless wire, stretched back of the tent.

From Camping For Boys by Gibson, Henry William

Rustless, life-born, living-tissued old wood: rustless as flesh is rustless, and happy-seeming as iron never can be.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)