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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of beplaster.

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Examples

  • “Pore lamb!” with which she beplastered Polly, and the antiquated reckoning-table she embarrassed them by consulting.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Within this rocky honeycomb -- “cette ville en monolithe,” as it has been aptly called, for it is literally scooped out of one mountain block -- live a few poor people, foddering their wretched goats at carved piscina and stately sideboards, erecting their mud-beplastered hovels in the halls of feudal princes.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • The chieftain laid in uniforms of his own designing, and strolled about the Grande Rue de Péra, gaudy in a Turkish military fez, white ducks and gloves, and a blue coat beplastered with gold lace.

    The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

  • Come, now, isn't it something worth living for to have one's coat and hat taken by one of this knot of magnificent crimson-velvet-coated, gold-beplastered, silken-calved beings who are ranged along the sides of the vestibule?

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

  • He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • And for any one who with Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on King's College Chapel in his mind has the misfortune to enter that long tunnel, beplastered with false ornament, the disillusion is unforgettable.

    Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Scratched and beplastered with mud, they crawled out in muck which gripped them to the knees, and roosted like buzzards upon the butt of a prostrate live-oak.

    Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

  • He came into Little O'Grady's dirty and disorderly place, and O'Grady, even before he could scramble forward through his ruck of dusty casts and beplastered scantlings, saw that the blow had fallen.

    Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

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