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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rainproof.

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Examples

  • Once admitted, you cross a car park full of modest vehicles and, if you are lucky, glimpse one of the world-renowned health or poverty specialists working for the foundation, dressed in the confidently casual Seattle office uniform of chinos and rainproofs.

    Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2010

  • We are in a Viking ship, but using modern equipment - lifejackets, rainproofs, satellite, gas-cookers.

    Sailing home with the Vikings 2007

  • We are in a Viking ship, but using modern equipment - lifejackets, rainproofs, satellite, gas-cookers.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Once admitted, you cross a car park full of modest vehicles and, if you are lucky, glimpse one of the world-renowned health or poverty specialists working for the foundation, dressed in the confidently casual Seattle office uniform of chinos and rainproofs.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • ..in the gentle sogginess of February, flights of birds in a wide grey sky, sheets of shining water on fields, children on half-term in wellies and rainproofs.

    The Thames Valley... Joanna Bogle 2009

  • ..in the gentle sogginess of February, flights of birds in a wide grey sky, sheets of shining water on fields, children on half-term in wellies and rainproofs.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2009

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