plaster
/ˈplæstɚ/ 名词 C1中文： 石膏
- A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings. · Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)
- A similar material used for exterior walls.
- A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- Plaster of Paris.
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They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.
A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it.
The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
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