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ˈair-balloon
[air- 7.]
†1. = balloon n.1 3. Obs.
1753Publ. Advertiser 25 May, A cascade, and shower of fire, and grand air-balloons, were most magnificently displayed.
2. A globose bag filled with gas so as to ascend in the air. Cf. balloon n.1 6.
1783[see balloon n.1 6]. 1783Morning Chron. 8 Sept. 3/4 The first air-balloon he made was filled with fumous particles. 1784Johnson in Boswell III. 626 On one day I had three letters about the air balloon. 1789Mrs. Piozzi France & It. I. 22 The new-invented flying chariot fastened to an air-balloon. 1829Nat. Philos. I. vi. §51. 28 (U.K.S.) Aërostats, or air-balloons, are machines, constructed so as to be able to rise in the atmosphere. 1907Daily Mail 9 July 7/4 In July 1901 M. Santos Dumont flew from St. Cloud round the Eiffel Tower and back in his steerable air balloon.
3. An inflatable toy balloon.
1895Croker Village Tales 155 The child was jumping for joy, and had a green air-balloon in his hand. 1908H. G. Wells War in Air vi. §2 Small children's air-balloons of the latest model attached to string became a serious check to the pedestrian in Central Park. 1944O. Sitwell Autobiogr. (1945) I. ii. vi. 227 Fashionable beauties, with psyches that resembled air-balloons, inflated, light and highly coloured. |