MEANING
Work, surfaces or ornament made in plaster.
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- decorative plasterwork
- damaged plasterwork
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Damaged plasterwork exposed the darker material beneath the ornament.
The restorer distinguished original plasterwork from the later repair.
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- plasterwork
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Usually uncountable. 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.
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