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noun

moleskin n.

Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.

A soft fabric having an adhesive backing, applied to the skin at points susceptible to abrasion, as on the feet, to prevent irritation or blistering during exercise, such as hiking.

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Etymology of 'Moleskin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moleskin" Quotes from Famous Books

... to see Patsy, and upon occasion would stay for luncheon, where the originality of his language and the quaintness of his dress pleased the Princess and her guests. The Laird of Supsorrow in his coat of blue and silver, his buff waistcoat and corded moleskin small clothes, his silver buckles and broad silver thumb-ring, his gold snuff-mull and the cowries clashing at his fob, was considered the type of the real Scottish countryman. He was really infinitely like the later caricatures of John Bull than anything ...

— Patsy • S. R. Crockett

... likely to have much riding, take extra leather or moleskin trousers, or tweed covered down the inside of the legs with leather, such as cavalry soldiers generally wear. Leather is a better protection than moleskin against thorns; but not so serviceable against wet: it will far outlast moleskin. There ...

— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... achieve no more than a stutter. He was an extremely little man, dressed in the Sunday garb of a civilian—fustian breeches, moleskin waistcoat, and a frock of blue broadcloth, very shiny at the seams. His hat had fallen off in the struggle, and his eyes, timorous as a hare's, seemed to plead for mercy while he ...

— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... being full up of the myths that are Greek— Of the classic, and noble, and nude, and antique, Which means not a rag but the pelt on; This poet intends to give Daphne the slip, For the sake of a hero in moleskin and kip, With a jumper ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... was next door she had entered it but three times. Now she put on her new moleskin cap, which made her face small and innocent, she rubbed off the traces of a lip-stick—and fled across the alley before her ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

Words linked to "Moleskin" : material, fabric, textile