Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of plaster (the material).

Etymologies

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plaster +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The body is not fur but scales, large clots of some hardened, plasterlike material.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • The body is not fur but scales, large clots of some hardened, plasterlike material.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • The body is not fur but scales, large clots of some hardened, plasterlike material.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Look for a plasterlike coating on your boiler or furnace and chalky, corrugated material around your pipes and air ducts.

    Health Warning: Your Pre-1980 Home May Contain Asbestos in Some Form 2008

  • She settled on wrapping a mile-long ribbon of gauze and some plasterlike substance around my knee and part of my thigh.

    Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

  • He pocketed the notebook, closed and locked the safe, pressed the plasterlike rectangle back in place, then replaced the poster.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • No heroic groupings, no monumental majesty was visible in these graven images of dull-gray, plasterlike material.

    Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974

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