Plastered
['plɑːstəd] or ['plæstɚd]
Definition
(adj.) (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster .
(adj.) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance; 'black hair plastered with pomade' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Plaster
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Examples
- They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She saw that his boots were all clayey, even his trousers were plastered with clay. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was a low plastered ceiling to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The roof of the room was not plastered, but was formed of the flooring of the room above. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was for ever making eyes at me--a coarse, puffy-faced, red-moustached young man, with his hair plastered down on each side of his forehead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here the boys emerged from under the table, and, with hands and faces well plastered with molasses, began a vigorous kissing of the baby. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Oftentimes the inner walls were plastered too. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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