mustard-plaster
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Noun
mustard-plaster (plural mustard-plasters)
- Alternative form of mustard plaster
- 1900, Charles Morris, Cyclopedia of practical information, page 487:
- The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.
- 1991, Glenn H. Leggett, Carl David Mead, Melinda G. Kramer, Prentice Hall handbook for writers, page 438:
- If in a paper on the value of home remedies, however, you offer as fact the statement that mustard-plasters are good for curing colds, you will have to cite a wide and representative sampling of incidents as well as testimony from respected medical authorities to convince your audience.
- 2001 (originally published in Russian in 1892), Anton Pavolvich Checkhov (English version edited by Charles Neider), “Ward No. 6”, in Short Novels of the Masters, page 435:
- An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!
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