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Plastered   /plˈæstərd/   Listen
verb
Plaster  v. t.  (past & past part. plastered; pres. part. plastering)  
1.
To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
2.
To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
3.
Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.





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"Plastered" Quotes from Famous Books



... church, covered with ex votos, plastered even above the arches with inscriptions on marble celebrating the joy for prayers granted and benefits received, before that altar of Our Lady where hundreds of tapers pierced the air blue with incense with the gilded blades of their lances, there were public prayers ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... thickening at every step. They were escorted to a house which they were told was set aside for their use, and that they would be allowed to see the king on the following day. The houses differed entirely from anything which they had before seen in Africa. They were built of red clay, plastered perfectly smooth. There were no windows or openings on the exterior, but the door led into an open courtyard of some twelve feet in diameter. On each side of this was a sort of alcove, built up of clay, about ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... seen an Arab cemetery; and it seemed to him that this Mussulman burial-place, scattered over two low hills, in the midst of desert wastes, was beautiful and pathetic. The afternoon sunshine beat upon the koubbahs of marabouts, and the plastered graves or headstones of less important folk; but so pearly pale were they all that the golden quality of the light was blanched as if by some strange, white magic, and became like moonlight shining on a ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... soggy handkerchief, and sipped at his frosted rainbow, careful not to disturb the varicolored layers of liquid in the tall narrow glass. Every now and then he nervously ran his fingers through his straight black hair, which lay damply plastered to his head. His jacket was faded and worn, and above the left pocket was emblazoned the meteor insignia of the spaceman. A dark patch on his back showed where the perspiration had seeped through. He blinked and ...
— Faithfully Yours • Lou Tabakow
... Plastered up to the middle like the rest of the party, besides splashes over face and hat, I could get no dirtier than I was already. I got without compunction into a canoe some three feet wide; and was shoved by three Negroes down a ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley


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