astrodomen.

1964 N.Y. Times 6 Dec. v. 2/3 The ‘rain or shine stadium’, also known as Houston's Big Bubble, but officially the Harris County Domed Stadium, will probably..be called Astrodome Stadium.

1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 21/1 Nugent, the fastest growing rock act in the States, has now graduated into the astrodome concert bracket.

1986 Guardian 5 Feb. 27/2 George Williamson, the Welshman who built the National Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park, has already put together astrodomes in Bahrain and places in the Far East.

2010 R. Horrow & K. Swatek Beyond Box Score iv. 76 Baltimore's Oriole Park..whose ‘retro’ red-brick facade..was a romantic escape from the utilitarian Shea Stadiums and echoing Astrodomes.

1984 Science 10 Aug. 600/3 A perfect astrodome defense is not a realistic thing.

1984 Los Angeles Times 23 Oct. i. 5/2 Our military knows and has said publicly that an airtight ‘Astrodome’ space defense is impossible.

1991 Sanity Jan. 6/3 An ‘astrodome’ defence would be prohibitively expensive, unreliable and vulnerable to counter-measures.

1995 E. O'Meara Grahamstown Reflected 82 Obviously a perfect place for starry-eyed nights beneath the astrodome of the African sky.

2004 C. A. Johnson Sorrows of Empire iii. 84 Ronald Reagan's advocacy of a strategic defense initiative..had as its objective the building of a kind of protective electronic astrodome of rockets and lasers over the country.