sparadrap
English
Noun
sparadrap (plural sparadraps)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sparadrap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sparadrapum of obscure origins; the second part of the term is drap and the first could be Old French esparer (“cover”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spa.ʁa.dʁa/
Noun
sparadrap m (plural sparadraps)
- band-aid, plaster, bandage
- Synonym: pansement
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables:
- Les pansements étaient compliqués et difficiles, la fixation des appareils et des linges par le sparadrap n’ayant pas encore été imaginée à cette époque.
- Dressing the wound was complicated and difficult, the application of apparatus and linen as the bandage having not yet been conceived of by that time.
- surgical tape, medical tape
Descendants
- → Catalan: esparadrap
Further reading
- “sparadrap”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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