beplasterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

be- +‎ plaster

発音

• 韻: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)

動詞

beplaster (三人称単数 現在形 beplasters, 現在分詞 beplastering, 過去形および過去分詞形 beplastered)

1. (transitive) To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub (with something).
   • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation: A Poem, London: G. Kearsly, p. 14,^[1]

     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.

   • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee, New York: Wiley & Putnam, Part I, Chapter 10, p. 91,^[2]

     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.

   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, Chapter 25, p. 273,^[3]

     He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.

   • 1935, Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Book 1, Chapter 3, p. 32,^[4]

     Even here, no movement of life is visible, but one who has lived and known towns like these feels for the first time an emotion of warmth and life as he looks at the gaudy, blazing bill-beplastered silence of that front.