moleskin

See also: Moleskin

English

moleskin fabric (2)

moleskin jacket (3)

Etymology

From mole +‎ skin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

moleskin (countable and uncountable, plural moleskins)

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

Hyponyms

• skin

Descendants

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

1. 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...

Further reading

• moleskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English moleskin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈlɛs.kin/
• Rhymes: -ɛskin
• Syllabification: mo‧les‧kin

Noun

moleskin m inan (related adjective moleskinowy)

1. moleskin (cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap)
2. moleskin (clothing made of this fabric)

Declension

Declension of moleskin

	singular	plural
nominative	moleskin	moleskiny
genitive	moleskinu	moleskinów
dative	moleskinowi	moleskinom
accusative	moleskin	moleskiny
instrumental	moleskinem	moleskinami
locative	moleskinie	moleskinach
vocative	moleskinie	moleskiny

Further reading

• moleskin in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• moleskin in PWN's encyclopedia