plasterboard.

A construction board with a plaster or gypsum core, usually faced with paper or similar material.

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Words that belong together

• plasterboard partition
• plasterboard ceiling

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The plasterboard partition stopped short of the original stone ceiling.

A damaged edge revealed the plasterboard beneath the painted finish.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural plasterboards for separate boards or types where context permits. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: moderately common.