mustard plaster

American  

noun

1. a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.

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mustard plaster British  

noun

1. med a mixture of powdered black mustard seeds and an adhesive agent applied to the skin for its relaxing, stimulating, or counterirritant effects

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Etymology

Origin of mustard plaster

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

For evening, models wore ethereal long silk plissé dresses in soft shades of mustard, plaster, or Dior gray.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2021

Increasing specialization has sent the old?and often romanticized?doctor-patient relationship the way of such medical artifacts as the mustard plaster and the house call.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most unique was a menu for a medical convention�printed on the back of a large mustard plaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those with rheumy lungs favored her simple but pungent mustard plaster.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein