moleskin

English

moleskin fabric (2)

moleskin jacket (3)

Etymology

mole +‎ skin

Noun

moleskin (countable and uncountable, plural moleskins)

The fur of a mole.
A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap.
(by extension, in the plural) Clothing made of this fabric.
A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters.

Hyponyms

skin

Descendants

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

Translations

fur of a mole

Bulgarian: кожа от къртица (koža ot kǎrtica)
Finnish: myyrännahka, myyränkarva
German: Maulwurfsfell (de) n
Irish: craiceann caocháin m
Polish: krecia skórka f
Swedish: mullvadsskinn n

fabric

Bulgarian: молескин m (moleskin)
Catalan: molesquí m, pell de préssec f
French: moleskine (fr) f
German: Moleskin (de) m or n, Englischleder n, Pilotstoff m
Ido: moleskino (io)
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: mohikena
Polish: moleskin (pl) m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: moleskine m
Swedish: mollskinn (sv)

Verb

moleskin (third-person singular simple present moleskins, present participle moleskinning, simple past and past participle moleskinned)

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...