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Impermeable

adjective

Preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through. "An impermeable layer of scum" , "A coat impermeable to rain"

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"Impermeable" Quotes from Famous Books

... shelters that are at present employed for movable markets at Paris are very primitive, and are wanting in solidity and convenience. They consist simply of wooden uprights to which are affixed cross-pieces that support an impermeable canvas. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various

... for her, seraphic in her presence, seared me as with hot irons when away from her. I loved her with a double love which shot its arrows of desire, and then lost them in the sky, where they faded out of sight in the impermeable ether. If you ask me why, young and ardent, I continued in the deluding dreams of Platonic love, I must own to you that I was not yet man enough to torture that woman, who was always in dread of some catastrophe ...

— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac

... silence for a space. Every word of this brutal expert jarred upon his refinements. He was so gross, so impermeable to all the subtler issues of being. But it is no good picking a quarrel with a doctor. "My religious beliefs," he said, "I don't approve ...

— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

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