To coat or cover thickly with plaster or a sticky substance.
From 'be-' plus 'plaster,' from Old French 'plastre.' The prefix intensifies the verb to mean 'cover completely' or 'smother with plaster.'
Medieval builders used this word to describe the intensive process of coating walls—it implies not just a thin layer but a thorough, messy coating, like how we now say 'plastered' when something is completely covered.
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