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English
Adjective
gasmasked (not comparable)
- Alternative form of gas-masked
1968 February 29–29, Allen Katzman, “Poor Paranoids”, in The East Village Other, volume 3, number 12, page 5:The stage manager of the Free Theater who was there at the time of the incident, noticed two policemen “in federal uniforms” drop through the skylight a couple of minutes before hoards of gasmasked police entered the premises.
1975, Asa Briggs, “The People’s War and Peace”, in Theo Barker, editor, The Long March of Everyman, André Deutsch; British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISBN, pages 251–252:‘[…] I rushed into an air raid warden’s house and grabbed one, put it on and arrived at our flat fully gasmasked. When Betty saw me, she eventually got hers too, and there we were, waiting for our wedding in about an hour’s time, fully gasmasked!’ (Mr Kynvin, BBC Archive Disc.)
1979, Basil Jackson, chapter 3, in The Night Manhattan Burned, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 29:For several minutes he watched the coveralled and gasmasked oilfield experts who had helicoptered from Houston re-check the dome.