moleskin

From mole +‎ skin.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊlˌskɪn/

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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.

• skin

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

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...

• moleskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English moleskin.

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈlɛs.kin/
• Rhymes: -ɛskin
• Syllabification: mo‧les‧kin

moleskin m inan (related adjective moleskinowy)

1. moleskin (cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap)
2. moleskin (clothing made of this fabric)

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