moon suit
noun
: a sealed garment worn especially for protection from hazardous material (such as toxic waste or infectious disease)
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Rusty Schweickart comes out of the lunar module hatch for a spacewalk to test the EVA moon suit.
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Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2019
Local doctors and nurses, clad in stifling moon suits to protect against the virus, work under unimaginable conditions.
—Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits.
—Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2019
Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2019
Local doctors and nurses, clad in stifling moon suits to protect against the virus, work under unimaginable conditions.
—Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits.
—Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2019
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“Moon suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20suit. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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