rust-covered

My French is decent but rust-covered.

After resting at the bottom of the ocean for more than a century, the rust-covered device that relayed those messages – which summoned the liner RMS Carpathia to rescue survivors – could be recovered.

But today’s screens, no matter the platform, are perfectly suited to actresses whose emotional lives are laid as bare as Elizabeth Bishop poems — while male movie stars seem stuck in the rust-covered school of the Wounded Male Animal, which parodies itself in an endless loop of tough-guy celluloid or emo-muteness.

A rust-covered 1958 Edsel Corsair was equipped with a fire extinguisher.

On the Brazilian side, a tiny, rust-covered sign reads simply: Stop.