What is "plastering"

Usage examples of "plastering".

Bugiardini had put a heavy coat of intonaco on the panel the day before, hatching a rough surface on which he was now plastering the precise area to be painted that day.

The woman talked again, and Listening, Katie found herself moving into the livhe listened, sitting on the sofa, heedless of the plastering room with Jordan next to her like a second skin.

So that herd of twelve horses might spend a whole day thundering up and down the increasingly sloppy and treacherous field, with the players bellowing and cursing and the spectators roaring encouragement, and the sticks waving and crashing and often splintering, and the churned-up terrain plastering the players and horses and watchers and musicians, and the riders falling from their saddles and trying to scurry to safety and being cheerfully ridden down by their fellows, and, toward the end of the day, when the field was a mere swamp of mud and slime, the horses also slipping and slewing and falling down.

Suddenly losing interest in the stick, he dropped it on the ground then dredged up all that he knew about plastering from somewhere in his memory.

Nathan had started arriving earlier in the evenings in order to get in a few hours of plastering, and Lydia was surprised.

Lydia waited in hopes that Nathan might come early and finish the plastering in the kitchen.

Each coat or plastering is defined by a film of smoke-blackened surface.

Such plastering is found throughout the region, but it is much more abundant in the modern than in the ancient work.

The interior plastering of kivas was always much more carefully done than that of any other walls.

Owing to blackening by smoke and recoating, the thickness of the plastering in kivas can be easily made out.

The floor of the tunnel and the sides were smoothly plastered, but the plastering does not appear to have been subjected to the action of fire.

The interior plastering of the kiva is not smoke-blackened, but the coat next the surface is stained, as is also the third coat underneath.

Without the air, I might have waited here, animate yet unaroused, till my plastering decayed.

Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.

When a group of natives have been robbed of them by thoughtless white men and have found the sacred store-house empty, they have tried to kill the traitor who betrayed the hallowed spot to the strangers, and have remained in camp for a fortnight weeping and wailing for the loss and plastering themselves with pipeclay, which is their token of mourning for the dead.