flight suit

noun

: a usually one-piece garment especially of fire-resistant fabric worn especially by a member of a military aircrew

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André 3000 André 3000 lugs a grand piano atop his flight suit, and accessorizes with a Benji Bixby x Demure Amsterdam hat and garbage bag. Brendan Le, People.com, 6 May 2025 The women debuted their Blue Origin flight suits on social media over the weekend, which featured a NASA patch, their last names and the Blue Origin logo on a navy jumpsuit. Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025 The collar was also changed to one from a flight suit of the same period. Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025 An astronaut wears either a flight suit or spacesuit (or sometimes a business suit) and is positioned behind a table with a scale model of their spacecraft to one side. Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flight suit

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of flight suit was in 1944

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“Flight suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20suit. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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