plasterer

English

Etymology

plaster +‎ -er

Noun

plasterer (plural plasterers)

1. 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?

2. 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

• plasterer bee

 

Translations

a person who plasters walls

• Bulgarian: мазач m (mazač)
• Catalan: guixaire m or f
• 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
• 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: ماله‌جی (malacı)
• Polish: tynkarz (pl) m
• Romanian: stucator (ro) m, tencuitor (ro) m
• Russian: штукату́р (ru) m (štukatúr)

Anagrams

• palterers, prealters, replaster