{"id":3591,"date":"2006-06-29T22:33:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T05:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/06\/29\/moulage-1.html"},"modified":"2006-06-29T22:33:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T05:33:34","slug":"moulage-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/06\/29\/moulage-1\/","title":{"rendered":"moulage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My favorite new word from recent weeks is \"moulage.\"<\/p>\n<p>MW11 has a relatively staid definition: \"an impression or cast made for use especially as evidence in a criminal investigation.\"<\/p>\n<p>But in emergency-response circles, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moulage\">moulage<\/a>\" is (as Wikipedia puts it) \"the art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training [...] medical and military personnel.\"<\/p>\n<p>Mock injuries.  They make fake wounds out of latex, and they sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyb.com\/bn_moulage.htm\">kits<\/a> that contain fake wounds along with makeup for creating more of them.  (That kit page amusingly says they sell \"Moulage Makeup &amp; Causality Simulation.\"  Can I get a causality simulation?)  You can take classes in this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I gather it's still called moulage when makeup artists do it for movies and plays.  Which is too bad if true; I liked the idea of there being a word specifically and exclusively for this particular aspect of emergency medical training.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the word is, of course, from French; the roots have to do with molding, casting, or forming.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite new word from recent weeks is &#8220;moulage.&#8221; MW11 has a relatively staid definition: &#8220;an impression or cast made for use especially as evidence in a criminal investigation.&#8221; But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}