adhesive plaster

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adhesive tape, especially in wide sheets.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

While chipping away plaster from his kitchen wall, the Guatemalan man unearthed a series of centuries-old Mayan murals.
7 Historically Significant Artifacts Rescued by Happenstance|The Daily Beast|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Death masks are made from a cast of layered plaster strips laid on the face soon after death.
The Ukrainian Face Collector Launches an Exhibition in Kiev|Nina Strochlic|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Once dried, a liquid, such as plaster, wax, or bronze, is poured in for a perfect representation of the face.
The Ukrainian Face Collector Launches an Exhibition in Kiev|Nina Strochlic|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We crossed a stream into a village of timbered white plaster houses, some with pretty wrought-iron balconies.
Is This Hemingway’s Pamplona or a Lot of Bull?|Clive Irving|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Her face was cast into a plaster mold, preserving her shy smile for posterity.
Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing Horrors|Nina Strochlic|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
“It is a perfect identification,” murmured Mr. Arden, with his eyes still riveted on the plaster faces.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The plaster will show on the ground whether the sowing is being done evenly.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
A pint of meal and a pint of plaster to each rod, is a good mixture to sow in.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.