redout

[ red-out ]

noun

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.

Origin of redout

1940–45; red¹ + out, on model of blackout

C'tait une sorte de Lovelace en cheveux blancs, forte redout des mres de famille.'
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
I had the pleasure of seeing old redout this morning, the flower-painter par excellence.
Audubon and his Journals, Volume I (of 2) | Maria R. Audubon
redout told me the young Duchesse d'Orlans had subscribed, and I would receive a letter to that effect.
Audubon and his Journals, Volume I (of 2) | Maria R. Audubon
Fifty sat down in the big room of the redout, twenty in the Green Room.
The Spell of Switzerland | Nathan Haskell Dole
Il arriue quelque fois, qu'vn mesme est tout ensemble & Autmoin & Sagamo, & lors il est grandement redout.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. III: Acadia, 1611-1616 | Various

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