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airsuit

noun

Etymology

From air + suit.

  1. derived from sequi
  2. derived from *sequita✻
  3. derived from sieute
  4. derived from suite
  5. inherited from sute
  6. compounded as airsuit — “air + suit”

Definitions

  1. A space suit.

    • ... and in a paroxysm of fury clawed at the convict's airsuit as though he could rip the fabric apart with his bare hands.
    • Opening the forward hatch, he winched down the little platform flyer, loaded aboard a spare airsuit and spare tanks of oxygen, and without further ceremony set out for Thumbnail Gulch
    • He stopped removing his airsuit and pulled it back on again, all but the helmet, which he left lying on the ground.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA