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Each of Ms. Dyson’s three white-on-gray paintings is 6 feet wide by 8 feet tall and dominated by a subtle circular pattern applied with plastery strokes of a palette knife.

From New York Times • May 25, 2017

On one shelf, heads fresh from their molds sit white and plastery.

From Washington Times • Oct. 4, 2014

He took me around quite a bit, and was nice enough, only I couldn't lose him—you know that kind, Jim, always saying tiresome, plastery sort of things.

From The Black Creek Stopping-House by McClung, Nellie L.

We carry thick planks, two by two; and then piles of sacks which blind the bearers with a plastery dust and make them reel like masts.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease plastery hair, lovelock over his dexter optic.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James