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German
Etymology
haften (“to adhere, to stick”) + Schale (“husk, peel, shell; scallop”).
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- Hyphenation: Haft‧scha‧le
Noun
Haftschale f (genitive Haftschale, plural Haftschalen)
- (rare) contact lens
- Synonyms: Kontaktlinse, (rare) Kontaktglas, (rare) Kontaktschale, (rare) Haftglas, (rare) Haftlinse
1957 February 13, “Die Primadonna”, in DER SPIEGEL, number 7, →ISSN, page 43:Außerdem ist sie sehr kurzsichtig; heute behilft sich die Primadonna mit sogenannten Haftschalen, unsichtbaren Augengläsern, die unter die Augenlider geschoben werden.- She is also very short-sighted; today the prima donna helps herself with so-called contact lenses, invisible eye glasses that are pushed under the eyelids.
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