diving dress
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Self-contained Diving Dress.—The object of the self-contained diving dress is to make the diver independent of air supply from the surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
He had slipped into his diving dress and was at the moment adjusting the breastplates of lead, weighing twenty-five pounds each, to his chest and back.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
He gave orders for the engine room force to stand by and then arranged for himself, Ned, and Koku to go outside in diving dress and cut the weed off the shafts.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
From Bayhaven they had hastened south by fast trains, stopping on the way to buy diving dress.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry
Ah, man, that poor diving dress of self-conceit is sadly tattered!
From The Ebb-Tide by Osbourne, Lloyd
