Bandage

Definitions

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
3. A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
   broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“[…]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.”

“[…] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place⟳ of meeting, and that he would allow⟳ his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take⟳ off the bandage.”

“The face⟳ which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].”

“This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.”

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