moleskin

English

moleskin fabric (2)

moleskin jacket (3)

Etymology

mole +‎ skin

Noun

moleskin (countable and uncountable, plural moleskins)

1. The fur of a mole.
2. A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap.
3. (by extension, in the plural) Clothing made of this fabric.
4. A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters.

Hyponyms

• skin

Descendants

• → French: moleskine
• → Catalan: molesquí
• → German: Moleskin
• → Japanese: モールスキン (mōresukin)
• → Spanish: moleskine

Translations

fur of a mole

• Bulgarian: кожа от къртица (koža ot kǎrtica)
• Finnish: myyrännahka, myyränkarva
• German: Maulwurfsfell (de) n
• Irish: craiceann caocháin m
• Polish: krecia skórka f
• Swedish: mullvadsskinn n

fabric

• Bulgarian: молескин m (moleskin)
• Catalan: molesquí m, pell de préssec f
• French: moleskine (fr) f
• German: Moleskin (de) m or n, Englischleder n, Pilotstoff m
• Ido: moleskino (io)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: mohikena
• Polish: moleskin (pl) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: moleskine m
• Swedish: mollskinn (sv)

Verb

moleskin (third-person singular simple present moleskins, present participle moleskinning, simple past and past participle moleskinned)

1. To cover with a moleskin bandage.
   • 2011, William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest:

     Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers...

Further reading

• moleskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia