gas mask
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See also: gasmask
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡæs mɑːsk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American, UK) IPA(key): /ɡæs mæsk/
Noun
[edit]- A covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas.
- 1991 December 15, Saadia Everett, “Protest Beatings”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 4:
- If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol [sic] can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.
Translations
[edit]a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poisonous gas
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Further reading
[edit]- gas mask on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gas mask on the Simple English Wikipedia.Wikipedia simple