bandages

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
   • […]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
   • […] 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.1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_75
3. (broadly, figuratively) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
   • This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.

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