plasterer

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plasterer

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Etymology

From plaster +‎ -er.

Noun

plasterer (plural plasterers)

2. A person whose occupation is to plaster walls.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], line 125:

     Villain, thy father was a plasterer; / And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?

3. One who makes plaster casts.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

     The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.

Derived terms

• like a plasterer's radio
• plasterer bee

Related terms

• plastering
• plasterwork

Translations

a person who plasters walls

Bulgarian: мазач m (mazač) Catalan: guixaire m or f, guixer m Chinese: Mandarin: 石膏工 (zh) (shígāogōng), 泥瓦匠 (zh) (níwǎjiàng) Dutch: stukadoor (nl) Finnish: rappari (fi) French: plâtrier (fr) m, plâtreur (fr) German: Stuckateur (de) m, Gipser m Greek: αμμοκονιαστής m (ammokoniastís) Hebrew: טַיָּח (he) m, טַיֶּחֶת f Italian: imbianchino (it) m, intonacatore m Japanese: 左官 (ja) (さかん, sakan, しゃかん, shakan) Kazakh: сылақшы (kk) (sylaqşy) Latin: tector m Norman: pliâtreux m Ottoman Turkish: صیواجی (sıvacı), ماله‌جی (malacı) Polish: tynkarz (pl) m Portuguese: estucador m Romanian: stucator (ro) m, tencuitor (ro) m Russian: штукату́р (ru) m (štukatúr) Spanish: yesero (es) m

Anagrams

• prealters, palterers, psalterer, replaster