bandage

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bandage

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Borrowed from French bandage.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/

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bandage (plural bandages)

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
   • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]

     […] 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.

• dressing
• plaster
• splint

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, [2]

     ...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.

• Adangbe, Dagbane

From French bandage.

• IPA^(key): /bandaːsjə/, [b̥anˈd̥æːɕə]

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

1. bandage (medical binding)

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

• gipsbandage

• “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French bandage.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑnˈdaːʒə/

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• Hyphenation: ban‧da‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

bandage f (plural bandages)

1. bandage

   Synonym: zwachtel

• bandagist

From bande +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.daʒ/

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bandage m (plural bandages)

1. bandage

• “bandage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

bandage (plural bandages)

1. bandage

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bandage m (plural bandages)

1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

bandage

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From French bandage.

bandage n

1. bandage

• bandagera (“to bandage”)

• plåster (“band-aid”)

• bandage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bandage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bandage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

• bangade