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Fireproof   /fˈaɪərprˌuf/   Listen
Fireproof

verb
1.
Make resistant to fire.






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"Fireproof" Quotes from Famous Books



... gateways hung with roses, windows of diamond-paned glass get in white wood, rooms with little white enamelled manicure-tables and chairs, amber lights glowing with soft incandescence in deep bowers of fireproof tissue flowers. There was a delightful warmth about the place, and the seductive scents and delicate odours betokened the haunt of ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... say with a smile, "I'll write thirty-five thousand on that fireproof building for you, but I can't take that rag stock. I'd like to help you out, you understand, but I simply can't touch the class. Two years ago I wrote an accommodation line for Billy Heilbrun—some ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... with cotton waste saturated with oil. It was only necessary after that to apply a match to the inflammable material to start an incipient conflagration. Had the house itself not been built of granite, and—save the doors and windows and other trimmings—been practically fireproof, the result would have been disastrous; as it was, however, beyond badly scorching the door, and cracking a few of the stones by reason of the intense heat that was generating, no ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter



Words linked to "Fireproof" :   proof, noncombustible, incombustible



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