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plastery en · ADJ

Etymology

From plaster + -y.

Meanings

  1. Of the nature of plaster.
    • 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. 1865, Arthur Hugh Clough, chapter 9, in Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, letter dated April 18 1849, page 122:

Forms

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more plastery Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most plastery Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

plasteriness