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mustard-plaister en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of mustard plaster.
   alt of mustard plaster
   • He said there was nothing the matter with me, and prescribed a mild solution of peppermint, which was neither nice nor useful; in the evening he came again, and ordered leeches and a mustard-plaister. 2003, Chroniken Von Etchmiazin, page 319:
   • One of the first occasions on which the reader is introduced to him when not enveloped in this fog is when his mother and a doctor roll him up in too strong a mustard-plaister. 2007, George Moore, Ann Heilmann, Mark Llewellyn, The Collected Short Stories of George Moore: Gender and Genre:
   • On removing a mustard-plaister, you must immediately cover the portion of the skin, over which it was applied, with a piece of flannel, or with cotton wool. 1883 -, Shelley Leigh Hunt, Alexander S. Kenny, Tropical Trials: A Hand-book for Women in the Tropics, page 369:
   • The best mustard-plaister is made thus : take of mustard, in powder, two and a half parts, linseed-meal two and a half parts, boiling water ten parts. 1883, Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies, One Thousand Medical Maxims and Surgical Hints, page 71:
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of mustard plaister (yellowback)
   alt of mustard plaister
   • ...these Gissing 'mustard-plaisters' are still much coveted by collectors, and it is well worth rescuing from "the inequity of oblivion" examples of other Gissing novels published in the uniform series and house-styles of the 1890's and after. 1971, John Spiers, Pierre Coustillas, The rediscovery of George Gissing, page 12:

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