redout

[ red-out ]

noun

1. a condition experienced by pilots and astronauts in which blood is forced to the head and results in a reddening of the field of vision during rapid deceleration or in maneuvers that produce a negative gravity force.

Word History and Origins

Origin of redout¹

1940–45; red ¹ + out, on model of blackout

Example Sentences

C'tait une sorte de Lovelace en cheveux blancs, forte redout des mres de famille.'

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I had the pleasure of seeing old Redout this morning, the flower-painter par excellence.

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Redout told me the young Duchesse d'Orlans had subscribed, and I would receive a letter to that effect.

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Fifty sat down in the big room of the Redout, twenty in the Green Room.

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Il arriue quelque fois, qu'vn mesme est tout ensemble & Autmoin & Sagamo, & lors il est grandement redout.

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