Beplaster

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub (with something). transitive

    "Yet with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art; Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaister’d with rouge, his own natural red."

  2. 2
    cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on wordnet

Example

More examples

"Yet with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art; Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaister’d with rouge, his own natural red."

Etymology

From be- + plaster.

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