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noun, masculine

sparadrap

/spa.ʁa.dʁa/

noun, masculine/spa.ʁa.dʁa/plural: sparadraps

band-aid, plaster, bandage; surgical tape, medical tape

De grosses larmes s'arrêtaient au coin de ses paupières à demi closes, qui laissaient voir entre les cils deux prunelles pâles, enfoncées; le sparadrap, collé sur sa joue, en tirait obliquement la peau tendue.Big tears lay in the corner of the halfclosed eyelids, through whose lashes one could see two pale sunken pupils; the plaster stuck on her cheek drew the skin obliquely.

Synonyms: pansement

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”).