# blindage
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French blindage.

### Noun

blindage (plural blindages)
* (military, historical) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
** 1852, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Fortification, Military Tactics, and Perspective:A blindage may also be formed by covering the space between two traverses with beams, hurdles, earth, & c .
** 1911, F. E. G. Skey, “The Final Struggle for 203-Meter Hill at Port Arthur”, in The Military Engineer, volume 3, page 107:In order that the reader may appreciate what a ruined blindage looked like and with what horrors its destruction was attended, the following report of Sapper Peter Oleinik, of the Kwantung Sapper Company, is published in full:
** 2013, Ron Field, American Civil War Fortifications:Blindage covering the tops of saps could simply consist of sandbags, or a layer of fascines laid over the crest of the parapet.
* (military) A deep dugout, often equipped with bunks and other fittings.
** 1855, Leo Tolstoy, Sevastopol Sketches:There literally was left no space to step foot in the whole blindage: it was so choked with soldiers up to the very entrance.
** 2017 January 14, Roland Oliphant, “Special report: Loose cannons at the frontline of Ukraine's forgotten war”, in The Telegraph‎:The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice).
** 2020, Yevgeniya Podobna, Girls cutting their locks:. At first, I thought of staying in a blindage.
* A final layer of material such as sand or road scrapings that is spread to fill in any small gaps in the road surface and soak up any wet spots.
** 1907, Robert Phillips, “Discussion on Construction and Maintenance of Rural Roads”, in Report of the 3d-4th Congress of the Sanitary Institute, page 661:Surveyors differ in opinion, some use 10 per cent. of the screenings from the machine as blindage; the writer has tried these, but prefers the road scrapings.
** 1920, William Lumisden Strange, Notes on Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and on the Water Supply of Towns, page 731:Blindage is required to finish off the surface of the metal coating by filling up any interstices which may remain after it is consolidated.
** 2014, S.K. Sharma, Principles, Practice and Design of Highway Engineering:When prime coat is not entirely absorbed within reasonable length of time, usually 24 hr. it is customary to apply a very light sand blindage to blot up the excess primer.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “blindage”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## French
### Etymology

From blinder +‎ -age.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blɛ̃.daʒ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

blindage m (plural blindages)
* armour, armour plating

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: блінда́ж (blindáž)
* → English: blindage
* → Polish: blindaż
* → Portuguese: blindagem
* → Russian: блинда́ж (blindáž)
* → Ukrainian: блінда́ж (blindáž)

### Further reading

* “blindage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.