Etymology
Origin of lathing
Example Sentences
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They talked amid the exposed plaster lathing for nearly an hour, then for half an hour more in the street out front.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2017
For the first six to eight months, I worked at lathing the bottoms of cymbals.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2016
The painting is moving and I’m kind of standing still like a workman on his lathe, lathing a piece of wood.
From Forbes • Sep. 24, 2014
The walls were stripped down to their lathing, and the new plaster was hand-buffed with beeswax, creating a sheen that, as Ms. Spellman points out, “looks incredible in candlelight.”
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2010
Columns are also fire-proofed by wrapping expanded metal or other metal lathing around them and plastering.
From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul
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