plastery

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English

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Etymology

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From plaster +‎ -y.

Adjective

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plastery (comparative more plastery, superlative most plastery)

  1. Of the nature of plaster.
    • 1865, Arthur Hugh Clough, chapter 9, in Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, letter dated April 18 1849, page 122:
      St. Peter's disappoints me; the stone of which it is made is a poor plastery material; and indeed Rome in general might be called a rubbishy place.

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