Definition:
a. tight; unaffected by water; made of or covered with material that doesn't allow water in
Example:
The jacket no longer has a main waterproof zipper.
Sentence in Classic:
Once or twice he rearranged the light waterproof which he had slung over one shoulder in toreador fashion.
The streaming umbrella which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told of the fierce weather through which he had come.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextSome blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By A. Conan Doyle
ContextHe passed up the staircase and into the corridor along the walls of which the overcoats and waterproofs hung like gibbeted malefactors, headless and dripping and shapeless.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextOna was a working girl, and did not own waterproofs and such things, and so Jurgis took her and put her on the streetcar.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextThe rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than ever and everybody in the station wore wet and glistening waterproofs.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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