moulagen.

1886 Harper's Mag. Sept. 497 There is another process of casting with a wax model, moulage à cire perdue, as it is called, which was practised by the sculptors of the Renaissance.]

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 788/2 In anatomy and physiology, models are specially employed as aids in teaching and study, and the method of moulage or chromoplastic yields excellent impressions of living organisms, and enables anatomical and medical preparations to be copied both in form and colour.

1940 R. Morrish Police & Crime-detection xii. 120 In these days an attempt is made to create a complete image of the murdered person by casts. This is called the ‘Moulage’ system. The results are almost as lifelike as the dummies in Madame Tussaud's.

1947 C. Brooks Well Wrought Urn iv. 69 A detective making a moulage of a footprint in wet clay.

1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up iii. 35 Moulage is a general name for impression materials some of which can be remelted and re-used (regular hydrocolloids)..and others (known as non-reversible hydrocolloids),..which are alginate non-reusable materials.

1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 254/1 A specially prepared moulage plaster..may be used on delicate or valuable materials.

1980 F. Smyth Cause of Death viii. 148 The normal, horizontal moulage is taken with plaster of Paris poured into a casting trough.