plaster cast

any piece of sculpture reproduced in plaster of Paris.

Origin of plaster cast

First recorded in 1815–25

A plaster-cast mask of Voltaire when first hung up made him chuckle with indecent laughter.

The Journal of a Disappointed Man |Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
By the purest chance, dallying over the knickknacks, he picked up a plaster-cast of a hand.

The Lincoln Story Book |Henry L. Williams
I have had a plaster-cast model made of the little Pompeian figure of Narcissus at the spring in Naples.

Atlantis |Gerhart Hauptmann
The plaster-cast was then well oiled, the fish laid in it, and more plaster poured in, until the fish was covered.

The Swan and Her Crew |George Christopher Davies

Is there any one, I ask, who will pay to see the plaster-cast when he can behold the marble original for nothing?

Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General |Charles Lever

plaster cast

surgery a cast made of plaster of Paris See cast (def. 40)

a copy or mould of a sculpture or other object cast in plaster of Paris

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