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... bedcovers, armor lining, etc. The OED gives: Med. A pad or dressing, spread with a medicinal substance, and applied to the skin. Obs. 1583 P. BARROUGH Methode of Phisicke 32 Make a twilt with iij. sheetes of graie paper, & bast upon it cotton woll. 1601 P. HOLLAND tr. Pliny Hist. World II. XXVIII. xix. 339 The same rennet applied as a cataplasme upon a quilt of wooll [Fr. appliqué en cataplasme,...
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