noun
Meaning 1
The fur of a mole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
moleskin
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈmoʊlˌskɪn/
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noun
Meaning 2
A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Clothing made of this fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 5
To cover with a moleskin bandage.
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noun
Meaning 6
a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
History
Etymology
From mole + skin.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кожа от къртица (koža ot kǎrtica) — fur of a mole
- Finnish: myyrännahka — fur of a mole
- Finnish: myyränkarva — fur of a mole
- German: Maulwurfsfell — fur of a mole
- Irish: craiceann caocháin — fur of a mole
- Polish: krecia skórka — fur of a mole
- Swedish: mullvadsskinn — fur of a mole
- Bulgarian: молескин (moleskin) — fabric
- Catalan: molesquí — fabric
- Catalan: pell de préssec — fabric
- French: moleskine — fabric
- German: Moleskin — fabric
- German: Englischleder — fabric
- German: Pilotstoff — fabric
- Ido: moleskino — fabric
- Māori: mohikena — fabric
- Polish: moleskin — fabric
- Spanish: moleskine — fabric
- Swedish: mollskinn — fabric