sticking plaster
An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.
As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’
ADJ
fresh | chipped, cracked, crumbling, peeling
QUANT
chunk, flake
When I scraped the old wall, large flakes of plaster fell onto the floor.
VERB + PLASTER
apply
The nurse applied plaster to the cut on my knee this morning.
PLASTER + VERB
come off (sth), fall off (sth), peel off (sth)
The old paint and plaster came off the bedroom wall when we started renovating.
PLASTER + NOUN
cast
The doctor wrapped a plaster cast around my broken arm for six weeks.
ADJ
sticking
VERB + PLASTER
put on | peel off, take off
PLASTER + NOUN
cast
The doctor applied a plaster cast to his injured ankle after the football match.
PREP
in ~
After his accident, he had his broken leg in plaster for eight weeks.