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/bˈændɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Bandage n.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. "Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes."

verb

Bandage v. t. (past & past part. bandaged; pres. part. bandaging) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bandage" Quotes from Famous Books

... pincers, which he carefully laid upon the fire. Then with his left hand he gently fanned the flames, and his mouth being protected by the linen cloth in such a manner that his breath could not defile the sacred fire, he began slowly and in a voice muffled by the bandage he wore, to recite the beginning of ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... a single bandage around the abdomen, is decidedly unreasonable, injurious and cruel. I do not pretend that the remarks of M. Buffon are fully applicable to the condition of infants in the United States. The good sense of the community nowhere permits us to transform a beautiful babe quite into an Egyptian ...

— The Young Mother - Management of Children in Regard to Health • William A. Alcott

... woman of about fifty; she wore black clothes, a red kerchief knotted around her forehead like a bandage and another of some indistinct colour over ...

— The Quest • Pio Baroja

... talked fitfully to one another. Resting his arms on a stone that served for a table and gazing thoughtfully at the torches, which gave out so little light for so much smoke, was seen an old, sad-featured man with his head wrapped in a bloody bandage. Did we not know that it was a den of tulisanes we might have said, on reading the look of desperation in the old man's face, that it was the Tower of Hunger on the eve before Ugolino ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... skilfully and quickly: soon the injured hand was swathed in a neat and snowy bandage that smelled of iodine. She was aware that Roger's eyes not only followed the movements of her fingers, but dwelt as well on her cheek, her mouth, the downward sweep of her lashes. It was a pleasant moment, fraught ...

— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell

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