sparadrap

Borrowed from French sparadrap.

sparadrap (plural sparadraps)

1. (obsolete) A cerecloth.
2. (medicine, obsolete) Any adhesive plaster.

• “sparadrap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /spa.ʁa.dʁa/

sparadrap m (plural sparadraps)

1. band-aid, plaster, bandage

   Synonym: pansement

   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome V : Jean Valjean, book 5:

     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.

2. surgical tape, medical tape

• → Catalan: esparadrap
• → English: sparadrap

• “sparadrap”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.