The Collaborative International Dictionary
Court-plaster
Court-plaster \Court"-plas`ter\ (k?rt"pl?s`t?r), n. Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
Usage examples of "court-plaster".
Jack, ferociously, mopping his wounded nose with his handkerchief, while Nannie rushed to get water and court-plaster.
The torment of the ill-fitting, chafing hide, the incessantly-repeated small rasping wounds, the ooze of blood, the flayed soles of his feet, attached to the fur by court-plaster, the heat, the suffocation, the vile uncleanliness, had reached what he had thought the unendurable point ten days, two hundred miles, ago, in the torrid waste of the Causse du Palan.