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English
Etymology
From shrinkage + -proof.
Adjective
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.