moulage

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noun

The art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.

“She really wants to get the point across that impalement is serious. I think she's going to moulage a few actors and have them stumble in to really scare the class.”

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounmoulage (countable and uncountable, plural moulages)

plural moulages

  1. countableuncountableThe art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.
  2. countableuncountableCasting, molding.
verbmoulage (third-person singular simple present moulages, present participle moulaging, simple past and past participle moulaged)

present singular third person moulages · participle present moulaging · participle past moulaged · past moulaged

  1. To apply mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.

    She really wants to get the point across that impalement is serious. I think she's going to moulage a few actors and have them stumble in to really scare the class.

    1 more example

    'You can describe wound symptoms, like bruising or bleeding, or you can moulage a "victim" and let the students actually see the injury.'

    1987, Gregory M. Fedorev, Marines, volume 16, number 12, page 28

Origin

  1. Frenchmoulage
  2. Englishmoulage

Borrowed from French moulage.

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Translations

Finnish lavastaminen
  • lavastaminenart of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel
German Moulage
  • Moulageart of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel
Japanese ムラージュ
  • ムラージュ (murāju)art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel
Russian муля́ж
  • муля́ж (muljáž)art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “moulage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/moulage.

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