What is "unplastered"

Usage examples of "unplastered".

Formerly a custom prevailed of leaving a small space on the wall unplastered, a belief then existing that a certain Katchina came and finished it, and although the space remained bare it was considered to be covered with an invisible plaster.

The narrow edges of similar stones are visible in the unplastered portions of the house wall, which also illustrates the relative proportion of chinking stones.

Neither map nor chart graced the unplastered walls, the unpainted furniture of the room was sadly in need of repair, while a musty odor permeated the room.

The architecture is simple: bare rectangular rooms, the walls and ceilings made of rough, unplastered tawny sandstone, uninterrupted by moldings or visible beams or other decorative contrivances.

Indeed, the prematurely old and abortive house had its best counterpart in the young man himself, who stole into one of its small, unplastered rooms with many a wary glance, as though it were a treasure-vault which he was bent on plundering.

Rome and savage Africa, for while the main part of the building was roofed with handmade tile, several porches were covered with native grass thatch, while a small outbuilding at the far end of the garden was a replica of a Bagego hut except that the walls were left unplastered, so that the structure appeared in the nature of a summer-house.

Raw unplastered cinder block and lines of fro zen washing hanging on balconies.

We found it a miserable-looking house, mostly unpainted and unplastered, but well filled with the swarthy faces.

Higher up, the port of Ripetta opens like a fan with its stone steps, its iron bollards, its low walls of unplastered brick, its seats of white marble, its bustle of longshoremen.

Mona, watching the vapor plumes emerge and dissipate instantly wherever they appeared, over every unplastered crack and vent.

The exhibit was in a large, beautifully vaulted cellar, the artwork hung on unplastered walls, and here and there, as is common in cellars, in recesses in the brick were the registers of furnace ducts.

As Albert Charlton lay awake in his unplastered room in the house of Plausaby, Esq.

He lay in his unplastered room that night, and counted the laths in the moonlight, and built golden ladders out of them by which to climb up to the heaven of his desires.

But six weeks in grim, gray, yellowish, unplastered, limestone walls, that are so thick and so high and so rough that they are always looking at you in suspicion and with stern threat of resistance!

The house had three stories counting the attic, with a few tiny barred windows set into half-timbered, unplastered mud walls.