Definitions

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  • adjective Without plaster (the building material); unplastered.

Etymologies

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plaster +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Not a fence, even, remained -- nothing but the old home -- shutterless, plasterless, its roof rotten, its cellar the abode of hogs.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • I found not a voice to cheer me, nothing but naked plasterless walls; a hearth with no frame of iron; the little chapel which contains the sacred tombs of the silent dead, and the dishonoured ashes of my grandsires.

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

  • It seemed a rather large hall, and I caught a momentary glimpse of bare rafters and plasterless wall.

    The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • It is sadder still, in many parts of Monti to see the modern ruins of houses which were not even finished when the crash put an end to the building mania, roofless, windowless, plasterless, falling to pieces and never to be inhabited -- landmarks of bankruptcy, whole streets of dwellings built to lodge an imaginary population, and which will have fallen to dust long before they are ever needed, stuccoed palaces meant to be the homes of a rich middle class, and given over at derisory rents to be the refuge of the very poor.

    Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

  • i have the most respect for mosley. if williams fought a plasterless margs he may have killed that cheater.

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • i have the most respect for mosley. if williams fought a plasterless margs he may have killed that cheater.

    East Side Boxing 2009

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