Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cloth coated with an adhesive substance and used to cover cuts or scratches on the skin.
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- noun
sticking plaster made bycoating taffeta orsilk on one side with someadhesive substance, commonly a mixture ofisinglass andglycerine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From its use by ladies at court to make beauty spots.]
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(noun) - The plaster of which the court ladies made their patches. These patches, worn on the face, were cut into the shapes of crescents, stars, circles, diamonds, hearts, crosses, and some even went so far as to patch their faces with a coach-and-four, a ship in full sail, a château, etc. This ridiculous fashion was in vogue in the reign of Charles I, and in the reign of Anne was employed as the badge of political partisanship. The Whig belles wore patches of court plaster on the right side and the Tories on the left side of their faces or foreheads. --Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1887
April 22, 2018