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[F., n. use of plastique adj., plastic.]
1. A name given to a plastic composition for modelling.
[1803Sarrett New Pict. London 80 The ornaments are plastick, a composition something like plaster of Paris.] 1903Daily Mail 7 Sept. 7/4 Modelling may be done in wax, clay, or plastique.
2. Statuesque poses or slow graceful movements in dancing; the art or technique of these.
1893G. B. Shaw Music in London 1890–94 (1932) III. 111 The unhappy students had been taught ‘plastique’ until they dared not call their arms and legs their own. The plastique professor..is almost as fatal a person as the harmony professor. 1897― Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) III. 146 Her interest in life and character will be supplanted by an interest in plastique and execution. 1947Ballet Ann. I. 56 Romeo and Juliet..does contain both the passionate, lyrical dancing and strong, dramatic plastique demanded by the tragedy. 1960Times 15 Mar. 6/1 Jive and an expressionistic development of plastique give more to these ballets than footwork. 1977New Yorker 16 May 79/2 True to the ‘Oriental’ plastique of the period, the steps are all turned in.
3. Plastic explosive; a plastic bomb. Also attrib.
1968L. W. Robinson Assassin (1969) xvi. 199 He planted another bomb... Bomb squad says it's made of plastique. 1969E. Ambler Intercom Conspiracy (1970) vi. 136 They had no trouble..fixing the plastique, the bomb. 1974Publishers Weekly 11 Feb. 64/2 To hold hostage a TV studio audience with a human plastique bomb. |