gas mask
noun
: a mask connected to a chemical air filter and used to protect the face and lungs from toxic gases
broadly
: respirator sense 1
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Some protesters wearing shields and gas masks on the other side of a fence at the federal complex picked up the canisters and tossed them back at police.
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City News Service, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
In the especially nasty autumn of 1954, women in June Cleaver dresses and gas masks protested outside the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
It’s intended to mark the service of police officers like Samuel Mott, hit again and again by a man wearing a gas mask and wielding a flagpole.
—Olivia George, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
Some also testified about wearing gas masks in their own homes.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
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City News Service, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
In the especially nasty autumn of 1954, women in June Cleaver dresses and gas masks protested outside the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
It’s intended to mark the service of police officers like Samuel Mott, hit again and again by a man wearing a gas mask and wielding a flagpole.
—Olivia George, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
Some also testified about wearing gas masks in their own homes.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
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