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

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     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.

   • 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