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▪ I. plaster, † plaister, n.|ˈplɑːstə(r), -æ-|
Forms: α. 1, 4– plaster, 3–5 plastre, 4 -tir, 5 -tere, -tyr, plaaster, platster. β. 4 plaistre, 5 playstir, -tyr, -tre, 5–7 playster, 5–9 plaister.
[The form plaster occurs in sense 1 in OE., ad. pop. L. plastrum (med.L. in Du Cange), shortened from emplastrum a plaster (medical and in grafting), a. Gr. ἔµπλαστρον (Galen), var. of ἔµπλαστον plaster, salve, f. ἐµπλαστός vbl. adj. ‘daubed on or over’. Cf. OHG. pflastar, Ger. pflaster, also from pop. L. In ME. reinforced by OF. plastre (13th c. in Littré, but the deriv. vb. plastrir in 12th c.), mod.F. plâtre, only in branch II below (for which also med.L. plastrum (1233) is cited by Du Cange). Thus the medical sense was from med.L., the builder's sense through French. The collateral form plaister, which has been current since 14th c., and has sometimes been more common (as a written form) than plaster, occurs also in 14th c. in OF. (plaistre), but it was not the normal OF. form even in Norman or Picard, and its history is obscure. Although still frequent in the 18th c., and found in Dr. Johnson's writings, it was not recognized by him in his Dictionary. In mod. dial. plaister (ˈplestər) is the form in Sc. and north. Eng.]
I.
1. a. Med. An external curative application, consisting of a solid or semi-solid substance spread upon a piece of muslin, skin, or some similar material, and of such nature as to be adhesive at the temperature of the body; used for the local application of a medicament, or for closing a wound, and sometimes to give mechanical support. See also court-p., mustard-p., sticking-p.
αa1000Be Dômes Dæᵹe (E.E.T.S.) 80 Hwi ne bidst ðu ðe beþunga and plaster? c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 304, ᵹenim þas ylcan wyrte wyrc to plastre; leᵹe to ðære wunde. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 360/54 Leie it..ase þei hit a plastre were. 13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1572 He laide a plastre under his ribbe. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 60 Take schepis talow & buttere, & make a plaster. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 90 A plaster of sowre bread boyled in wine, draweth sores passing well. 1785Burns Holy Fair xiii, O how they fire the heart devout, Like cantharidian plasters. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 231 On the third day the plasters were removed from the wound. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. vi. 71 One of the many who stick to me like a plaster.
β1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xxxi. (1859) 35 A very fool may he be clepid that leith a plaister corosyf to a wounde. 14..Stockh. Med. MS. 87 For to make trete þat ys callyd playster of plomb. 1535Coverdale Isa. xxxviii. 21 And Esay sayde: take a playster of fyges [1611 a lumpe of figges..for a plaister], and laye it vpon the sore. 1682Bunyan Holy War 318 It was a plaister to the brave Captain Credence his wound. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 43 Slips of Linen,..spread with an Agglutinative Plaister. 1874Motley Barneveld I. ii. 115 An aged lackey with a plaister over one eye.
b. fig. A healing or soothing means or measure.
αa1310in Wright Lyric P. xxx. 89 Of penaunce in his plastre al. 1340Ayenb. 148 Þe plastres of zuete warningges. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 17 To heale the wounde with a plaster of reconciliation. a1628Preston Breastpl. Faith (1630) 104 Adversity is not a Plaster or a Medicine, but a poyson to him.
β1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 163 Thow haste made a playster of penaunce to sorowfull peple. 1625Sanderson Serm. I. 126 The breath of the people being but a sorry plaister for a wounded conscience. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxiv. (1739) 133 The most part of those Laws were little other than plaisters applied to particular botches of those times.
c. burglar's plaster, see quot. 1905. poor man's plaster, a plaster composed of tar, resin, and yellow wax.
1845P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 257 Shipped lots of poor man's plaster and went afloat. 1860J. W. Warter Seaboard II. 287 Before the attack came on,..I put a poor man's plaister on the nape of her neck. 1905Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 6/7 A ‘burglar's plaster’..is the technical name for a piece of brown paper covered with treacle and used to deaden the sound of breaking glass.
II.
2. a. A composition of a soft and plastic consistency, which may be spread or daubed upon a surface, as of a wall, where it afterwards hardens; spec. a mixture of lime, sand, and (generally) hair, used for covering walls, ceilings, etc.
α13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1549 Þe lettres bileued ful large vpon plaster. 1382Wyclif Deut. xxvii. 2 Thow shalt arere greet stonus..and with plastre thow shalt dawbe hem. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Açotéa, a flat roofe couered with lead, or plaster. 1715Prior Down-Hall 152 Why 'tis plaster and lath. 1839E. D. Clarke Trav. Russia 103/1 They form cylinders, by scooping out almost all except the bark; and then, closing their extremities with plaster or mud.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 402/2 Playstyr for wallys..gipsum, litura, plastrum. 1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 51/2 Howses and walles of stone and plaister. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. iii. 33 Walles..made of grauen stone without morter or playster. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. ix. (1682) 39 The Plaister was made of quick lime. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. I. 458 The floor is made of plaister.
b. transf. A sticky mass.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 223 They eate it made in plaisters with the lime made of Oistershels. 1655tr. Com. Hist. Francion iv. 12 This goodly Musician that playes with me hath beaten me into plaister. 1728Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 138 Think ye..his gentle stamock's master To worry up a pint of plaister Like our mill-knaves?
3. Sulphate of lime, gypsum:
a. † (a) in its natural state; (b) powdered, but not calcined; used as a ground for painting and gilding, or for work in relief; (c) calcined; = plaster of Paris.
α1391Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 79 Et pro plastre et lapide ibidem emptis. 1393Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 120 In xviij carectatis de plaster emp. pro quodam novo domo. 1428Surtees Misc. (1888) 6 Blended plaster or lyme among his alom. 1481in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 345 Ad quandam querruram de plaster vocatam Sparre stone. 1483Cath. Angl. 283/1 Plastere, gipsus. a1552Leland Itin. I. 40 Plentiful Quarres of Alabaster, communely there caullid Plaster. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 340 Eight statues..made of plaster, by the celebrated Barbarigo. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §194 note, Plaster or Gypsum..is an earthy salt composed of calcareous matter dissolved in the acid of Vitriol. 1813J. C. Eustace Class. Tour Italy II. i. 2 The plaster, or stucco, is extremely hard, and in a climate so dry may equal stone in solidity and duration. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 142 Plaster, strictly speaking, is the Italian gesso,..and in old books on art, plaster casts are commonly called ‘gessos’.
β1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 271 Bysides Parys is greet plente of a manere stoon þat hatte gypsus and is i-cleped white plaistre [1432–50 playster, Higden album plastrum]. 1555Eden Decades 161 They beate the playster into fyne floure. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 120 This Shire yieldeth Flax and Alabaster, and Plaister. 1785Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 403 It was thought proper to take a model of his bust in plaister. 1808H. Holland Surv. Cheshire 28 The workmen distinguish..the sulphate of lime by that [name] of plaister.
b. U.S. Plaster of Paris, formerly used as a top-dressing for soils.
1787G. Washington Diary 10 June (1925) III. 222 Where the Plaister had been spread the white and red clover was luxuriant. 1816U. Brown Jrnl. 6 June in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) X. 264 A poor Hill Country well watered & adapted to Plaster. 1839J. Buel Farmer's Compan. xxii. 213 Districts..in which clover and plaster..were first introduced..have unquestionably made the most rapid strides in agricultural improvement. 1880Harper's Mag. June 67/2 Another glance detects the..farmer sowing his load of plaster across the whitening field.
III. 4. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) plaster-bandage, plaster-box; (sense 2) plaster groining, plaster wall; plaster-fronted adj.; (sense 3) plaster-kiln, plaster mould, plaster-sieve, plaster-stuff; also plaster-like adj. and adv.; plaster bill, a bird, the surf-duck or surf-scoter of N. America, Œdemia perspicillata; plaster-bronze, a plaster cast covered with bronze dust, to resemble a bronze; † plaster-clover (plaister-claver, Syd. Soc. Lex.), the sweet clover, Melilotus officinalis, which was formerly used in ointments; † plaister-faced a., having the face plastered with a composition to hide the wrinkles; plaster-jacket, in orthopædic surgery, a body casing or bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris, for correcting curvature of the spine, etc.; plasterman, a moulder in plaster of Paris; plaster-mill, a mill for grinding the materials for making plaster, as gypsum or lime, also old plaster; a mortar-mill; plaster-mull, -muslin, a plaster consisting of a thin sheet of gutta-percha, backed with mull or muslin, and spread on the inner side with a medicated and adhesive substance; plaster-rock, plaster-stone, raw gypsum; plaster saint, a virtuous person; freq. in ironical use, a person who makes a show of virtue; a hypocrite.
1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 113 The *Plaster-Bandage is adapted to almost every species of ulcer.
1685Cooke Mellif. Chirurg. i. i. (ed. 4) 2 With Needles, Lint, *Plaister-box, Salvatory furnished. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 67 The surgeon's plaster-box..was..full of silver instruments.
1898Daily News 19 July 3/2 An excellent bust, coming out..much better in plain plaster than in the *plaster-bronze.
1628Bp. Hall Righteous Mammon Wks. 720 Heare this, ye *plaister⁓faced Iezabels!
1900Century Mag. LIX. 491/1 One..quaint *plaster-fronted house.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 163 There does not seem to be any wooden inner roofs, except *plaster groining.
1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 616 The *plaster-jacket precludes the use of the cold douche.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 482 The clay is boiled on a *plaster-kiln.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. ii. 6 [Rocks] chalky, or of a *plaster-like substance. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 67 Pat it smooth with the back of your spade plaster-like.
1895Daily News 25 Oct. 6/4 ‘The pimple’ had evidently been put on by some keen-witted *plasterman who knew the tendency of the human mind to dwell upon trifles.
c1790J. Imison Sch. Art ii. 9 To prepare a *Plaster Mould, so as to take a Brimstone or Wax Impression from it.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 787 Salicylic acid, in the form of the *plaster⁓mull.
Ibid. 521 The *plaister-muslins (mulls), introduced by Unna, are intermediate between ointments and surgical plasters.
1835–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 153 A water privilege to put into the market, or a *plaister rock to get off, or some such scheme.
1890Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 8 Single men in barricks [sic] don't grow into *plaster saints. 1898G. B. Shaw Philanderer iv, in Plays Unpleasant 148 You fraud! You humbug! You miserable little plaster saint! 1934― On Rocks 11, in Too True to be Good 260 Theyd be sent back to Parliament by working class constituencies as if they were plaster saints. 1938W. B. Yeats New Poems 13 My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd: ‘This Land of Saints,’ and then as the applause died out, ‘Of plaster Saints.’ 1964‘S. Woods’ This Little Measure vi. 78 It's no good my setting up as a plaster saint..but I do think I'd draw the line at poison. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 690/1 The total effect is that Tchaikovsky as plaster saint becomes a monster who couldn't have created anyone's music, let alone his own.
1751J. Hill Hist. Mat. Med. 256 *Plaister Stone,..the white, glittering hard Kind [of Gypsum], which resembles fine Sugar,..generally known under the Name of Plaister of Paris Stone. 1765Bowles in Phil. Trans. LVI. 231 These mountains are formed of sand⁓stone, lime-stone, plaster-stone (or gypsum) and emery-stone.
1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 202 To make the *plaster-stuff come off the easier.
1424Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 152 Pro renovacione (?) *plastyrwal. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 105 Growing on ashes, burnt ground, plaster walls, and damp paper.
Add:[3.] c. Med. = *plaster-cast n. 2.
1905Lancet 28 Oct. 1250/1 Removal of the case may be necessitated by swelling of the limb... In [this] case the application of a fresh plaster will probably be required. 1948E. O. Geckeler Plaster of Paris Technic (ed. 2) x. 194 Providing the patient's temperature and symptoms are satisfactory the first plaster should not be removed for at least three weeks. 1976D. Storey Saville (1978) ii. vi. 69 The plasters on his legs had been made in such a way that they could support his weight.
▪ II. plaster, † plaister, v.
Forms: see prec. n.
[f. plaster n., or a. OF. plastrer (15th c. in Littré) to plaster (a wall), mod.F. plâtrer. OF. had plastrir in 12th c. (Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. a. trans. To overlay, daub, or cover with builder's plaster, or any material used for a similar purpose.
αa1300Cursor M. 1674 Wit pike..Plaster [v. rr. plastir, plastre] it wel wit-oute and wit-In. 1483Cath. Angl. 283/1 To Plastere, gipsare. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts vii. 26 b, He was cast out in a twigge basket or hamper, plastered ouer with lyme, into the ryuer of Nilus. 1555Eden Decades 344 Cotages made of bouwes of trees plastered with chauke. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. xiv. 285 It was plastered with the earth that makes China Ware. 1863Ruskin Munera P. (1880) 164 Why could he not plaster the chinks? 1865Lubbock Preh. Times xvi. (1878) 599 By plastering them on the outside with clay.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 402/2 Playstryn wallys, gipso. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 169 b, The Douehouse..must be well pargetted and plaistred without. 1611Bible Deut. xxvii. 2 Thou shalt set thee vp great stones, and plaister them with plaister [Coverd. playster them with playster]. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. v. 13 In the Entrance, a little way was playstered, that it might be adorned with Letters and Pictures. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 205 On the inside, plaistered with mud. 1808A. Parsons Trav. v. 123 These baskets are quite circular, plaistered over with bitumen on the outside.
b. transf. To bedaub, besmear, coat, cover with any adhesive substance; to overspread, overlay (often implying excessive or vulgar adornment).
α1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xx 57 The inner part of the temple is altogether plastered and couered with great tables of Porphyre. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iv, Their hair plastered up with pomatum. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Ribbons (1876) 18 The Great Duke (the breast of whose own coat was plastered with some half⁓hundred decorations). 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 93 By the second or third day [of pneumonia] the tongue is thickly plastered with white fur.
βc1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 104 Plaister it with moolde, eke in the roote. 1680Morden Geog. Rect., Turkey (1685) 335 Walls of rough Stone, plaistered over with little pointed Battlements on the Top. 1732Pope Ep. Bathurst 90 With all th'embroid'ry plaister'd at thy tail. 1774Westm. Mag. II. 95 Bills plaister posts, songs paper ev'ry wall.
c. fig. To cover, load to excess, e.g. with praise; also, to hide, gloze over, palliate; to patch, botch, mend or restore superficially. Also with over, up.
α1602Marston Antonio's Rev. ii. v, Thou art made as durt, To plaster up the bracks of my defects. 1813Examiner 22 Mar. 187/1 They plaster the memory of that intriguing politician with unbounded praise. 1858S. M. Schmucker Public & Private Hist. Napoleon III x. 154 In an hour every prominent place in the capital was plastered over with proclamations. 1865Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 169/2 To plaster his friends with praise in order that he in turn may be similarly beplastered. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iii. 54 Ive seen them in that office, telling my father what a fine boy I was, and plastering him with compliments. 1924A. Huxley Let. 29 Apr. (1969) 229 From Parma, which is a superb town, fairly plastered with Corregio's paintings, we went..to Mantua. 1953John o' London's Weekly LXII. 3/4 They show two maps of middle England plastered with the names of remote villages and towns associated with the Lollard rising of 1413–14.
β1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. 20 Se here the conueyaunce of these spyrytuall gentylmen in Playsterynge vp their vnsauerye sorceryes. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 3 With light cost of rough cast rhetorick, it may be tolerably plaistered over. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 43 A second Prometheus, to plaister up the decayed image of Mankind.
2. a. To treat medically with a plaster; to apply a plaster to. Also absol.
α1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 308 Lettres þei sent, Ȝif any surgien were [in] þe sege þat softer couth plastre. Ibid. 312 More of phisyke bi fer and fairer he plastreth. 1768Foote Devil iii. Wks. 1799 II. 275 Full power..to pill,..plaster, and poultice, all persons. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. iv, She bound the arm, plastered the head.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 402/2 Playstryn sorys, cataplasmo. 1593R. Harvey Philad. 18 She thought it no reason, to plaister one bodie for an other bodies sores.
b. fig. To apply a remedy to, soothe, alleviate; hence, humorously, to give compensation for.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 95 Bathed in þat blode,..And þanne plastred with penaunce, and passioun of þat babi. 1393Ibid. C. xx. 89 And ȝut be plastred with pacience, when fondynges hym prykieþ. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II cxlix, A promis'd Parliament can plaster ore This Gash. 1891T. Hardy Tess 78/1 Clare..did what he usually did in such cases, gave the man five shillings to plaster the blow.
3. a. To mix or pound into a soft tenacious mass; in Sporting slang, to shatter (a bird) with shot. In other sports, to defeat utterly, to trounce.
14..Med. Receipts in Rel. Ant. I. 53 Tak the white of .iij. egges..and whete flour, and erth of an oven, and playster al-to-gider. c1450ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 224 Tak mosse of aþorn, and seþ hyt in red wyn, and playstre hyt þer to. 1883Bromley-Davenport in 19th Cent. Dec. 1097 The plasterer, whose plastering often arises from jealousy, will plaster—i.e. blow the pheasant into a pulp. 1919J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 30 He could plaster All those who boxed out Tencombe way. 1951Amer. Speech XXVI. 230/2 Normal plasters Western. 1958F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict., Plaster, to hit an opponent hard and often.
b. intr. To form a plastery mass, to cake.
1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 215 Any rain that falls, so impregnates the soil with moisture, that if worked, it plasters, and the north-east winds harden it like stone.
c. trans. To shell or bomb (a target) extensively or heavily.
1915‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xviii. 262 The German front-line trenches had been ‘plastered’ from end to end. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 224 Plaster,..to shell heavily, e.g. ‘The village was plastered badly last night’. 1941Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 14 May–8 July 224 At night there is a concentrated attack on Bremen; the shipyards there and at Vegesack are plastered with bombs. 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 243 The bombers were not aiming at any particular target; they were plastering the ground in front of their cars. 1945Penguin New Writing XXIV. 32 They've started firing... Here they come again. They're plastering the other side. 1957‘N. Shute’ On Beach vi. 185 You'd think with Boeing as the target all this area would have been well plastered. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 249 Our gunners back at Zubza and Jotsoma kept plastering the heights from which the Japs plastered us.
4. To apply, affix, or stick (something) like plaster (or a plaster) upon a surface. Also fig.
1864Hawthorne Dolliver Rom. (1879) 80 The name that they caused the clergyman to plaster indelibly on the poor little forehead at the font. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iii. (ed. 2) 46 It is always easy for the originator of a new Philosophy to plaster any amount of high morals upon it. 1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes (1886) 80 Black bricks of firwood were plastered here and there upon both sides. 1889Spectator 14 Dec. 842 The mosquito—the best thing is to fling forth an indignant hand and plaster him to the wall.
5. a. To treat (wine) with gypsum or sulphate of potash with the object of neutralizing excessive acidity, etc. b. To dust (vines) with gypsum in order to prevent rot or mildew of the berries. c. To treat (land, a crop) with plaster of Paris.
1814J. Taylor Arator 155 [Bird-foot clover] among the plastered wheat will be three or four fold more luxuriant, than among the adjoining unplastered. 1819[see plastered]. 1852Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. III. 171 As soon as the corn came up, it was plastered on the hill. 1886Standard 14 May, Sherry..brandied to make it keep, and plastered with sulphate of lime to kill the tartar which makes it over acid. 1905H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 183 Sulphate of potash, with which wines in Paris were formerly largely ‘plastered’.
Hence ˈplastered, † plaistered ppl. a., (a) covered with, treated with, or formed of plaster; (b) slang, highly inebriated; drunk.
α1388Wyclif Amos vii. 7 Lo! the Lord stondinge on a wall plastrid. 1535Coverdale ibid., Beholde, the Lorde stode vpon a plastered wall. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 169 O'er clogging Fallows, o'er dry plaster'd Roads. 1819W. Faux Mem. Days in America (1823) 139 Plaster of Paris..is found to operate on land by attracting dew. More dew is always seen in plants and grains growing on plastered fields. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. (1861) V. 70 That ugly old labyrinth of dingy brick and plastered timber. 1912Dialect Notes III. 585 Plastered,..very drunk. 1924Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror xv. 242 Freddy had got so plastered and tried to play the trap-drums. 1931― Big Money xiii. 309 You would have expected something better from a business man like J. B. Hoke, even if he had been getting steadily plastered all the afternoon. 1934E. Waugh Handful of Dust iii. 110 The old boy's plastered. 1939J. B. Priestly Let People Sing iii. 71 He's gone to cool off. He's very bottled, fairly plastered. 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 182 ‘If it had been anyone else but Angela, I should have thought she was tight.’ ‘Darling, she was plastered.’ 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh ii. 118 Hanging around here getting plastered with you, Mac, is pleasant, I won't deny, but the old booze gets you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. 1953L. Hobson Celebrity iii. 29 ‘My God,’ he confided to the ceiling, ‘I'm plastered.’ 1958[see honkers a.]. 1964N. Marsh Dead Water iii. 75 He's overdone it to-night. Flat out in the old bar parlour..he was plastered. 1966J. Betjeman High & Low 66 You're barmy or plastered, I'll pass you, you bastard. 1979G. Hammond Dead Game xiv. 180 ‘I'll probably get plastered.’.. Keith carried his pint over to Constable Murchy.
βa1400Morte Arth. 3043 Paysede and pelid downe playsterede walles. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxx. 80 A feyned hede formed of playstred clothe. 1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 127 All the plaistered pretending sectes..are quite vanished. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 146 On the sides of caverns in limestone rocks, and on plaistered walls in vaults. |