plasterer
nounEtymology From plaster + -er.
1
A person whose occupation is to plaster walls.
- Villain, thy father was a plasterer; / And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?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:
2
One who makes plaster casts.
- The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- like a plasterer's radio, plasterer bee
- Related terms
- plastering, plasterwork