plaster

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  1. noun A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
  2. noun Plaster of Paris.
  3. noun A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes. Also called sticking plaster.
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  • Finally he was tied up like a chicken with sticking plaster, which is worse than rope if you want to get out of it, and left like a parcel in the farmyard. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
  • Again you pass buildings of a statelier cast, with carved pilasters on the front and arched doorways bordered with some simple, dainty line of carving; old plaster-covered urns, perhaps, stand on the brick garden-wall, and the plaster is peeling off in flakes that hang long and reluctant before falling to the ground. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • Where wallboard over balloon wood frames doesn't really obstruct Wi-Fi, the chicken wire coupled with the density of the plaster is as effective as the water always present in brickwork in keeping signals out. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • She works at making plaster which is used for the construction and finishing of houses. —  Kiva Loans
  • I'll write for you on the plaster--big words, too Oh, I'm sure you write well," Mr. Perkins agreed. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
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clay ·  cement ·  brick ·  marble ·  stucco ·  plastic ·  wax ·  gravel ·  granite ·  mud ·  masonry ·  bandage

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plaster:   plastering ·  plasters ·  plastered
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  1. Middle English, from Old English, medical dressing, and from Old French plastre, cementing material, both from Latin emplastrum, medical dressing, from Greek emplastron, from emplassein, to plaster on : en-, in, on; see en-2 + plassein, to mold; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also plaister, playster; from Middle English plaster, also plastre, playster (after Old French), from Anglo-Saxon plaster = D. pleister = Middle Low German plāstér = Old High German phlastar, plastar, Middle High German phlaster;, flaster, plaster, German pflastar = Swedish plåster = Danish plaster—Old French plastre, plaistre, a plaster, plaster, French plâtre, gypsum, = Provencal plastre, a plaster, = Italian diminutive piastrello, a plaster (Middle Latin plastrum, gypsum); with loss of orig. prefix; Middle English enplastre, from Old French emplastre, French emplâtre, a plaster, from Latin emplastrum, a plaster for a wound, from Greek ε̆μπλαστρον for εμπλαστον, a plaster: see emplaster.
  2. Formerly also plaister, playster; from Middle English plastren, playsteren, playstren = Dutch pleistcren = Middle Low German plāsteren = German pflastern = Swedish plåstra = Danish plastre; from the noun: see plaster, n. Cf. emplaster, v.
 

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