Crossword clues for moleskin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
moleskin \mole"skin`\ (m[=o]l"sk[i^]n), 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The fur of a mole 2 A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap 3 (context in the plural English) clothing made of this fabric 4 A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters vb. To cover with a moleskin bandage
WordNet
n. a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap
Wikipedia
Moleskin is a heavy cotton fabric, woven and then sheared to create a short, soft pile on one side. In feel and appearance its nap is similar to felt or chamois, but less plush than velour. The word is also used for clothing made from this fabric, as well as adhesive pads stuck to the skin to prevent blisters. Clothing made from moleskin is noted for its softness and durability. Some variants of the cloth are so densely woven as to be windproof.
Usage examples of "moleskin".
They had long since risen from the moleskin and top-boot stage in Leaping Horse.
An Eskimo adikey, made of white moleskin cloth, with the hood thrown back, served as a coat.
His trousers were also of white moleskin, and were tucked into knee-high sealskin boots with moccasined feet.
Charley had been wearing were now discarded for new, and sealskin boots were now replaced by buckskin moccasins and moleskin leggings.
Twig had made for Charley an adikey of white woolen kersey, and another to wear over it of white moleskin cloth, the hood of the latter trimmed with lynx fur.
She had also made him moleskin trousers and leggings, and a fur cap for each of the boys.
He had a cat-skin cap in his hand about as large as a frying-pan, and nearly of the same colour--this he kept turning round and round first with one hand, then with both--a pea-jacket with large pearl buttons, corduroy breeches, a kind of moleskin waistcoat, and blucher shoes.
He wore a cloth cap, dirty old moleskin jacket and leggings and a collarless shirt.
Swampy camped down the river, and Brummy supplied him with a cheap pair of moleskin trousers, tucker and tobacco.
I was trying too hard, as if I had thought of nothing else except her visit the whole six days, so I wore an old Donegal tweed sports jacket, with one of the original Pringle pullovers underneath, brown moleskin trousers, a good leather belt, soft rust-coloured cotton shirt, a dark-green knitted tie, Argyle socks, and my second-best dark-brown Lobb brogues.
An all-too-familiar sneering voice halted her in mid-stride and mid-thought as she reached the door of her lodgings and a burly man in a shiny black frock coat and greasy moleskin waistcoat stepped out of the shadowy hall to stand upon the step.
It was a boy about fifteen, dressed in a ragged pair of moleskin trousers, a good deal too large for him, but kept straight by a leather strap round the waist.
I daresay Drustan cut the strangest figure among us, in a black silk shirt with a ruffled cravat, moleskin breeches of charcoal-grey and a coat of deep-red velvet.
He wore heavy moleskin trousers that gave off the stale, exhausted scent of the pit.
He turned his attention back to the ladies, as he slipped off the light tropical moleskin jacket he wore and hung it on the branch of a mango tree.