moleskin

English

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. (in the plural) clothing made of this fabric
4. A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters

Hyponyms

• skin

Translations

fur of a mole

• Finnish: myyrännahka, myyränkarva
• Irish: craiceann caocháin m
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• Polish: krecia skórka f
• Spanish: lunar (es) m

fabric

• French: moleskine (fr) f
• Maori: mohikena
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• Polish: moleskin (pl) m

Verb

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...

References

• moleskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia