Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAND'AGE
BAND'AGE, n. [Fr.]
- A fillet, roller, or swath, used in dressing and binding up wounds, restraining hemorrhages, and joining fractured and dislocated bones. Sometimes, the act or practice of applying bandages.
- Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over another. – Addison.
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