Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small plaster, having a hole in the center, made of yellow wax, Burgundy pitch, turpentine, and sometimes with the addition of verdigris, applied to a corn on the foot, to promote its softening and removal.
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Examples
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I remember clapping my hand to my heart as I muttered an imperfect prayer, and laughing a little as I felt in my pocket, between it and that organ, an envelope containing some corn-plaster and a packet of unpaid tailors 'bills.
Gulliver of Mars 1905
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I remember clapping my hand to my heart as I muttered an imperfect prayer, and laughing a little as I felt in my pocket, between it and that organ, an envelope containing some corn-plaster and a packet of unpaid tailors 'bills.
Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896
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It would be more in harmony with the age to lay out our public gardens with floral injunctions to use B's hair-dye and C's corn-plaster.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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They would not put on a corn-plaster without scraping
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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