beplaster

Definition

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

Etymology

From be- + plaster.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "A starving man, however, little heeds conventional proprieties, especially on a South-Sea Island, and accordingly Toby and I partook of the dish after our own clumsy fashion, beplastering our faces all over with the glutinous compound, and daubing our hands nearly to the wrist."
• "He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being."