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• n  a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
• n  any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
• n  a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
• n  a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
  there were cracks in the plaster
• n  adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
• v  apply a heavy coat to
• v  cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
  The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters
  She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco
• v  affix conspicuously
  She plastered warnings all over the wall
• v  apply a plaster cast to
  plaster the broken arm
• v  coat with plaster
• v  dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

• Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals.
• At New York's Whitney Museum, a Segal introspective Silent, muffled in form, tinged with the pathos of the discarded chrysalis, George Segal's plaster figures have.
• Hope in Plaster "We have a patient.

• plaster of Paris
• poultice
• cataplasm
• plasterwork
• adhesive plaster
• sticking plaster
• plaster over
• stick on
• beplaster
• daub

News & Articles

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• Porch preservation
  CEDAR RAPIDS — At first glance, the concrete flowers, vines and leaves of the plaster mural wrapping around the walls of Brucemore’s sleeping porch are beautiful.
  June 16, 2013 - The Gazette
• On the Racked: Roots on Abbot Kinney, New Fashion HQs at Alameda Square, Andy Dick Hosts Downtown Modernism
  VENICE: Take a look inside Roots's airy storefront on Abbot Kinney. As a salute to the structure's original 1921 design, the renovation reused and repurposed various materials, like the lath taken from the original plaster walls and used to...
  June 15, 2013 - Curbed LA
• Islamist Jail Found in Benghazi Lavatory as Army Fights Militias
  In a secret jail in the toilets of an Islamist militia base in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a detainee scratched the number of days he was held illegally into the white plaster of the wall.
  June 14, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Kate Hutton in Chicago Tribune
  It will certainly cause cracked plaster and broken windows, but probably not structural damage,said Hutton.
• Andrea in Sydney Morning Herald
  Friends who were at clubs said it was pandemonium,said Santiago resident Maren Andrea Jimenez, an American UN demography expert. "It was scary! Plaster began falling from the ceiling. My dogs freaked out. I ran out and found everyone was...
• John McCain in FOXNews
  He wrote that three reporters told him that in response to some teasing, McCain told his wife: "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop," with an expletive.