bandage

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English

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An adhesive bandage on a hand following a minor dog bite
A soldier with a bandaged hand

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

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Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

  1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
  2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
    • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
      the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. [].
  3. (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
    This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.

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bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

  1. To apply a bandage to something.
    • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad,
      ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

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Danish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Pronunciation

Noun

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

  1. bandage (medical binding)

Usage notes

This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

Noun

bandage f (plural bandages)

  1. bandage
    Synonym: zwachtel

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French

Etymology

From bande +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

  1. bandage

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Interlingua

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

  1. bandage

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

  1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

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ett bandage

Etymology

From French bandage.

Noun

bandage n

  1. bandage

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