Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Construction or ornamental work done with plaster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The preparing or putting up of plaster, in the sense of two or three coats, or more, of mortar upon walls or ceilings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Architectural workexecuted inplaster .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
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Examples
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Use of plasterwork and moldings could be expensive, but they bring in the feel of authenticity of the design.
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She pushed through the door and past the dark mahogany bar, her eyes trailing over the mad mishmash of mirrors and chandeliers, the wood-panelled walls bedecked with mottled old Chinese prints, the crazed fruit plasterwork on the ceiling.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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Like the dining room, and probably every other room in the house, the room was framed with serious crown moldings and plasterwork.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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#2 Decorative moldings, ornaments, plasterwork and arches
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Like the dining room, and probably every other room in the house, the room was framed with serious crown moldings and plasterwork.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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Nothing jarring, simply a sense of chronic neglect—plasterwork left unrepaired, a spiderweb crack running jagged down one pane of window glass, drapes frayed and left to fade in the sun.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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It's no less fancy inside, with an ornately carved wooden staircase and plasterwork ceilings.
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According to the Daily Mail, the fitness coach Tony Strudwick caused damage to the plasterwork in a wall when he kicked out in anger after the team's defeat.
Verdict on Rio Ferdinand and Mario Balotelli's spat goes to extra time 2011
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Nothing jarring, simply a sense of chronic neglect—plasterwork left unrepaired, a spiderweb crack running jagged down one pane of window glass, drapes frayed and left to fade in the sun.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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The mansion features 18th-century plasterwork by Michael Stapleton, spectacular neoclassical columns and a gilded frieze contributed, in the 1890s, by the architect Alfred Darbyshire and a 1991 stained-glass window by Michael Judd with images of Swift, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and other indispensable figures.
Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic Julia M. Klein 2011
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