Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mold, as of a footprint, made for use in a criminal investigation.
- n. The making of such a mold or cast, as with plaster of Paris.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- French, from earlier mollage, fee for inspection of wood by use of a standard frame, from Old French molle, mold; see mold1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For some exercises, Carpenter said, real people wearing makeup known as moulage to look like wounds are used.”
“What makes treatment difficult is the chaos and danger of an attack -- conditions that can be simulated in moulage drills with actors.”
“I think a moulage is in order, just in case a body is found.”
“The Kircher Society is doing a great service with their user-appended list of wax anatomical musuems and medical moulage museums of the world.”
“Wired News has a great story by Mark Baard about the skilled make-up artists who create moulage, incredibly realistic injuries on people for emergency response training and exercises.”
“Former guest blogger Todd Lappin points us to a professional moulage kit, perfect for simulating your own brutal wounds and accident scenarios in the privacy of your own home.”
“The detectives had sketched the scene and photographed it, and even made moulage castings of tire tracks in the area.”
“Designer Jeone looks forward in fashion by looking back in time with a unique application of the French technique of moulage in her designs.”
“News 4 went to their moulage training, where members of REMSA and other actors do a dress rehearsal of a simulated disaster.”
“A Hollywood makeup artist was flown in to apply moulage or fake injuries to students participating in the mock accident.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moulage’.
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
orecchiette, rhabdomancy, guayabera, orthoepy, opisthenar, maguey, proem, ciabatta, cioppino, banns, concinnity, asthenia and 237 more...
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Copies of copies
replica, ersatz, synthetic, artificial, clone, simulacrum, reproduction, facsimile, carbon copy, twin, enantiomorph, antimer and 37 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
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words ending -age
wordage, equipage, reportage, arbitrage, verbiage, signage, seigniorage, espionage, sabotage, moulage
Tweets
Looking for tweets for moulage.
chained_bear A force of nature with some big damn ears, that's what. Jan 6, 2009
reesetee That he is, our sionnach. :-) Jan 6, 2009
hernesheir Crikey, how can anybody keep up with sionnach? Force of nature there, I warrant. Jan 6, 2009
sionnach Let's not forget:
boulage: the practice of street-bowling
coulage: see kewlage
doulage: the practice of midwifery
foulage: 1. the pollution of a natural wetland habitat through some kind of environmental catastrophe such as an oil spill; 2. the teen years.
ghoulage: 1. the branch of Hallmark marketing specifically devoted to Hallowe'en; 2. a nourishing, spicy Hungarian stew.
houlage: 1. street-name for the burgeoning field of cryptoacoustics, that is, efforts by professional 'ghostbusting' teams to capture sounds from the spirit world on tape; 2. what werewolves engage in during the full moon.
joulage: 1. what happens to the faces of certain male actors as they grow older; 2. short-term trading in energy futures.
loulage: the study of plumbing fixtures
moulage: 1. mussel-farming; 2. divination of a cow's age by studying her vocalization patterns.
oulage: 1. sheep-smuggling; 2. the random interjection of interrogative particles as conversational placeholders by French speakers.
poulage: 1. The academic study of the works of A.A. Milne; 2. scatology as an academic discipline (combined delightfully, of course, in Hannah Honig's groundbreaking and provocative new work - "Honey-Dipping in the Hundred-Acre Wood : Tappen the Source")
roulage: - aw heck, maybe someone else could take over? It's dinner time here. Jan 6, 2009
sionnach
And here I thought moulage meant the cultivation and farming of mussels, for all those bureaucrats in Brussels.
Or possibly the age of your donkey. Jan 6, 2009
hernesheir (n): generally, the art of making plastic molds of objects or of impressions made by objects. More specifically, the art of making such molds for use as evidence. Jan 6, 2009
whichbe The art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training Emergency Response Teams and other medical and military personnel. (French: casting/moulding) (Wikipedia) May 27, 2008
bilby "By one in the afternoon, the state police's rolling lab would be here, too, complete with hot and cold running forensics experts and a guy whose job it was to mix up plaster and take moulage casts of the tire-prints Norris had either been smart enough or lucky enough not to run over with the wheels of his own cruiser ..."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007