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Beplaster (verb) means to cover or smear something thickly with a substance.

verb

To cover or smear something thickly with a substance.

"He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being." — Joseph Conrad (1900)

"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." — Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River (1935)

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