moulage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moulage.

Noun

moulage (countable and uncountable, plural moulages)

1. The art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.
2. Casting, molding.

Translations

art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel

• Finnish: lavastaminen (fi)
• German: Moulage (de) f
• Japanese: ムラージュ (murāju)
• Russian: муля́ж (ru) m (muljáž)

Verb

moulage (third-person singular simple present moulages, present participle moulaging, simple past and past participle moulaged)

1. To apply mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.

   She really wants to get the point across that impalement is serious. I think she's going to moulage a few actors and have them stumble in to really scare the class.

   • 1987, Gregory M. Fedorev, Marines‎^[1], volume 16, number 12, page 28:

     'You can describe wound symptoms, like bruising or bleeding, or you can moulage a "victim" and let the students actually see the injury.'

French

Etymology

From mouler +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

moulage m (plural moulages)

1. casting, moulding

Descendants

• → English: moulage
• → Russian: муля́ж (muljáž)
• → Ukrainian: муля́ж (muljáž)

Further reading

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