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ˈplasterwork
Also plaster-work, plaster work.
[f. plaster n. + work n.]
The surface of a wall or other builders' work executed in plaster. Hence ˈplasterworker, = plasterer.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa v. 236 Pictures..artificially carued vpon the plaister-work and timber. 1797J. Woodforde Diary 3 Nov. (1931) V. 77 My Back-Kitchen..almost all taken down of the Stud and Plaister Work. 1845Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 272 In the market-place at Newark is a wooden house with small figures and canopies over them in plaster-work. 1897W. Millar Plastering Plain & Decorative i. 34 From 1750 to 1780 A. Wilton did some fine plaster work at Cambridge. 1908G. P. Bankart Art of Plasterer vii. 97 Exeter is rich in examples of seventeenth-century plasterwork. 1926M. Jourdain English Decorative Plasterwork of Renaissance i. 6 The names of the plasterworkers that have so far come down to us are English. 1959M. S. Briggs Conc. Encycl. Archit. 252 Apart from its normal function of providing a smooth external or internal surface for walls and ceilings, plaster⁓work has often reached a high level of artistic excellence. 1977New Yorker 4 July 66/2 The plasterwork inside the hall itself blossoms with Manueline exuberance. |