face plate n.
the transparent window of a spacesuitโs helmet
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1930
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Edward E. Smith
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Back in the control-room, Dunark and Sitar let their pressure decrease gradually to that of the terrestrial vessel and removed the face-plates from their helmets.
Skylark Three in Amazing Stories Aug. 405/2 -
1942
Jack Williamson
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Another guardsman in black armor came clawing up the rungs in frantic haste. He slammed his face plate up.
Minus Sign in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 68/2 -
1954
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Poul Anderson
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He took a curved stone and spat on it and began scouring his faceplate to remove the accumulated scratches in its hard plastic.
Big Rain in Astounding Science-Fiction 26/2 -
1971
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Lee Harding
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He looked past the grimy surface of the faceplate and at the pale white face on the other side.
Fallen Spaceman in Worlds of If June 160/2 -
1991
Orson Scott Card
Tears dropped onto the faceplate of the suit.
Xenocide xv. 339 -
1992
Allen Steele
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Nash instinctively threw his arms up in front of his helmet to protect his faceplate from being cracked.
Labyrinth of Night 270 -
1993
Kim Stanley Robinson
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The sun was overhead, too bright to look at even through her faceplate.
Red Mars .89 -
2008
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Allen Steele
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I still had to use my free hand to clear silt from my faceplate.
Galaxy Blues 102
Research requirements
antedating 1930
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a 1942 cite from Jack Williamson's "Minus Sign". Alan Cox submitted a cite from a 1974 edition of E.E. 'Doc' Smith's "Skylark Three": Alistair Durie verified the cite in the original 1930 serialization in Amazing Stories.Earliest cite in OED: 1962.
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