"plaster of Paris" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: So named after a large gypsum deposit at Montmartre, Paris. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} plaster of Paris (uncountable)
  1. A hemihydrate of calcium sulfate, made by calcining gypsum, that hardens when moistened and allowed to dry; used to make casts, molds and sculpture. Wikipedia link: Montmartre Tags: uncountable Synonyms: plaster [short-form], plaster-of-Paris [attributive] Translations (hemihydrate of calcium sulfate): guix [masculine] (Catalan), sádra [feminine] (Czech), gips [common-gender] (Danish), kipsi (Finnish), kipsilaasti (Finnish), plâtre [masculine] (French), Stuckgips [masculine] (German), Gips [masculine] (German), Gipsmörtel [masculine] (German), Gipsputz [masculine] (German), γύψος (gýpsos) [masculine] (Greek), प्लास्टर आफ पेरिस (plāsṭar āph peris) [masculine] (Hindi), गच (gac) [masculine] (Hindi), gipsz (Hungarian), plástar Pháras [masculine] (Irish), gesso [masculine] (Italian), 소석고 (soseokgo) (Korean), kapur paris (Malay), plaster paris (Malay), പ്ലാസ്റ്റർ ഓഫ് പാരീസ് (plāsṟṟaṟ ōphŭ pārīsŭ) (Malayalam), gips [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gips [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), gesso de Paris [masculine] (Portuguese), ghips [neuter] (Romanian), алебастр (alebastr) [masculine] (Russian), stookie (Scots), yeso blanco [masculine] (Spanish), gips [neuter] (Swedish), eskayola (Tagalog), ปูนปลาสเตอร์ (bpuun-bpláas-dtə̂ə) (Thai), alçı (Turkish)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.