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▪ I. plastery, n.|ˈplɑːstərɪ, -æ-|
[f. plaster n. + -y3.]
Plastered work; plastering.
1842Amer. Pioneer I. 207 The stone work and plastery was done by major William Rutledge, a soldier of the revolutionary war.
▪ II. ˈplastery, a.
Also 6 plastry, 6–7 plaistrie.
[f. plaster n. + -y.]
a. Of the nature of or like plaster; viscid, tenacious.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 8 b, Fleume plastry, whiche is very grosse, and as it were chalky. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. lxi. 567 Hauing gotten by long space..a plasterie crust or hardnes ouer all the parts of it. 1849Clough Let. to his Mother 18 Apr., St. Peter's disappoints me; the stone of which it is made is a poor plastery material; and, indeed, Rome in general might be called a rubbishy place.
b. Built with plaster, or in a manner suggestive of plaster.
1862‘G. Hamilton’ Country Living 6 To move from this tumble-down old house..into a..plastery, shingly, stary, new one. 1907Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 4/4 Plastery little red and white cottages and villas set at all angles among cabbage-plots.
Hence ˈplasteriness.
1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 126 Fracastorius attributes this sweating sickness to the Plaistriness of the soil. |