gypsum plaster

noun

1. plaster made primarily of gypsum.

Example Sentences

In the 2,500-year-old historic center of Sana’a, the capital of modern Yemen, residents adorned the ocher walls of their multistory homes with garlands of gypsum plaster, while in the town of Shibam, which emerged in its current form in the 16th century, rammed-earth towers rose as high as seven stories from a cliff’s edge overlooking the Wadi Hadhramaut, a vertiginous landscape that blurs the boundary between the natural and the man-made.

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Woolworths sold "chalkware" Nativity scenes in the interwar period - gypsum plaster moulded into figures.

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Wadley carefully removed small chunks of the sediment and stabilized them in little “jackets” of gypsum plaster.

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He is similarly dismissive about attempting to patch the molding with a piece of ready-made molding, either plastic types such as those made of polystyrene foam or ones cast from glass-fiber-reinforced gypsum plaster.

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Indian courts have tried to mitigate the environmental damage by banning the immersion of idols made from non-biodegradable materials such as gypsum plaster.

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