ˈsticking-plaster
[sticking ppl. a.]
A material for covering and closing superficial wounds, consisting of linen, silk, or other textile fabric, or of plastic, spread with an adhesive substance; a general name for court-plaster, lead-plaster, diachylon-plaster, etc.
| 1655 Culpepper etc. Riverius i. ii. 12 They heal up the wound with a sticking Plaister. 1749 Gataker tr. Le Dran's Operat. Surg. 438, I secure them [the flaps of the wound] in that situation with straps of sticking plaister. 1841 Dickens Barn. Rudge xxiii, He was fixing a very small patch of sticking-plaster..near the corner of his mouth. 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. 184 Court or Black Sticking-plaster is made with a solution of isinglass and tincture of benzoin laid upon black sarsenet. 1882 J. Ashton Soc. Life Q. Anne I. 169 In the reign of Charles I, when suns, moons, stars, and even coaches and four were cut out of sticking plaister, and stuck on the face. |
b. attrib. sticking-plaster miniature, a silhouette cut in black paper (resembling court-plaster).
| 1837 Thackeray Ravenswing vii, Little cracked sticking-plaster miniatures. 1848 ― Bk. Snobs xiv, A sticking-plaster portrait of Hugby.., in a cap and gown. |