Full record for unsuited adj.

Definition	not wearing a spacesuit
OED requirements	antedating 1966
Earliest cite	F. Herbert 'Destination Void'
Comment	Katrina Campbell submitted a 1981 cite from Bob Shaw's "Galactic Tours". Mike Christie submitted a 1966 cite from Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void"; the cite does not appear in the 1965 magazine version. Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1997 reprint of David Weber's 1994 "Field of Dishonor". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 2003 reprinnt of Karl Schroeder's 2002 "Permanence" We would like cites of any date from other sources.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for unsuited adj.

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1966 F. Herbert Destination: Void 137	Goodness and mercy? That was anything which preserved the hope that you could one day walk unsuited beneath an open sky.
1981 B. Shaw Galactic Tours 13	Our picture shows the practice areas in use by suited and unsuited vacationers, the illusion of actually being in space enhanced by the sight of a shuttle craft approaching one of the station's receiving bays.
1989 S. Sucharitkul Moon Dance iii. xii. 413	It was not segregated by sex—that was a European refinement most unsuited to the Far west—but there was an opulence she had become unaccustomed to in her Dakota years.