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elastoplasted en · ADJ

Etymology

From Elastoplast + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Covered with Elastoplast.
    • They have taken her glasses, and elastoplasted over the good left eye's lens; but still her right eye wanders. 2007, Patricia Ferguson, Peripheral Vision:
    • He is dressed in an old sweater, corduroy trousers, sandles and elastoplasted spectacles. A row of fairy lights hangs round his neck. 1987, David Edgar, Plays: One:
    • Fr. Malachy moved his elastoplasted glasses down his nose with a cowshit covered hand and turned to the two men. 1993, Arthur Broomfield, When the Dust Settles:
    • Relevant literature had told me so; / Propped up on scuffed, elastoplasted knees / Down unfrequented aisles of libraries, / It reassured me I was QUITE ALL RIGHT... 1993, John Whitworth, Landscape with Small Humans: