Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a cerecloth; an adhesive plaster, a medicated bandage, or the like, either linen or paper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A cerecloth.
- noun (Med.) Any adhesive plaster.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
cerecloth . - noun medicine, obsolete Any
adhesive plaster .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Merci in advance for helping to spread the French word! un pansement (pahns-mahn) n.m. bandage, dressing = Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid (R)
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Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid (R) Proverb: Le temps panse les blessures.
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Merci in advance for helping to spread the French word! un pansement (pahns-mahn) n.m. bandage, dressing = Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid (R)
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Merci in advance for helping to spread the French word! un pansement (pahns-mahn) n.m. bandage, dressing = Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid (R)
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid R Proverb: Le temps panse les blessures.
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bandage, dressing = Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid R
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bandage, dressing = Also: un sparadrap = Band-Aid R
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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_spata drapum_ (sparadrap) is to be applied upon a bandage, and if necessary the apostolicon ointment.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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The blue eyes of Marie Launay always serve as a sparadrap to a fallen minister! "
His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876
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