plaster
noun
a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
plasterer
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a word derived from
plaster.
Example Sentences
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“Nobody had ever really heard of this place,” said Steve Jones, a plasterer who works on the local council.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
She said the plasterer, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was due to climb Yr Wyddfa twice in one day as part of his training for an ultra marathon the following weekend.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
His father and mother, a plasterer and seamstress, respectively, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
His parents, Jacob, a plasterer, and Rel Goldman Topol, a seamstress, had fled shtetlach in Eastern Europe to settle in Palestine in the early 1930s.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
A plasterer who had been in his rooms reported them furnished with statues, oil paintings, and white fur rugs.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
