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pla ster

  • 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.
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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.

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