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And then there were moments of “11,000 Strings” that sounded like the musical aviaries of Olivier Messiaen emanating from a far away lath house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

Penny Carpenter, the cabinet member for children’s services, said the issue related to ceilings made from lath and plaster, which was used from the early 18th century, through to the early to mid 20th century.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

The heavy plaster, mixed with Portland cement, more than three inches thick and applied to a lath of chicken wire, required an ax to break through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023

Readings on lath and plaster can be misleading, though, so if that’s what you have, look for nails in baseboards, which should point to studs, or for electrical outlets, which usually have a stud alongside.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022

They emerged through another wall, but this one was lath and plaster on the far side.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Overhead, wisteria-laden laths shot through with light cast zebraic arrays of shadow, constantly shifting — another Killingsworth trademark that turns the house into a protean phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

She dresses in the traditional clothing of the region—a dark skirt, an embroidered huipil made on a waist loom—and weaves green laths into her long obsidian braids.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018

The three of them moved in a row, stepping on the crooked laths, a few paces apart.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013

Norwegians in the Olympic Village dined on smoked salmon and fullkornbroed from home, slept on wooden laths and consulted oracular weather forecasters in Oslo for amazingly accurate predictions of snow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elsewhere, the exposed laths, themselves rotting away, showed through like the ribs of a starving animal.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a smell of lubrication and lathed brass.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The inside of the building was lathed and plastered.

From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Fawcett, Edgar

Its walls were lathed but not plastered, and from our apartment we had an extended view of the entire floor.

From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Day, Mary L.

Adair says: "They are lathed with cane and plastered with mud from bottom to top within and without with a good covering of straw."

From The Problem of the Ohio Mounds by Thomas, Cyrus

They talked amid the exposed plaster lathing for nearly an hour, then for half an hour more in the street out front.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017

For the first six to eight months, I worked at lathing the bottoms of cymbals.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016

The painting is moving and I’m kind of standing still like a workman on his lathe, lathing a piece of wood.

From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2014

The walls were stripped down to their lathing, and the new plaster was hand-buffed with beeswax, creating a sheen that, as Ms. Spellman points out, “looks incredible in candlelight.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2010

In another room, a shell had sprayed the ceiling, so we had to pull the plaster down to the bare lathing.

From Golden Lads by Gleason, Arthur