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Lath and plaster   /læθ ənd plˈæstər/   Listen
Lath and plaster

noun
1.
A building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster.





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"Lath and plaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... in detail, in a building nominally and peculiarly "National"; we have Swiss cottages, falsely and calumniously so entitled, dropped in the brick-fields round the metropolis; and we have staring square-windowed, flat-roofed gentlemen's seats, of the lath and plaster, mock-magnificent, Regent's Park description, rising on the ...
— The Poetry of Architecture • John Ruskin


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