lath
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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
The council said there were no concerns about the material, but ceilings may be at risk if the lath and plaster - often found above suspended ceilings - were damaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
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
The only way to truly fix it, he said, was to tear out the plaster, down to the beams, inspect and rebuild the rotting lath and replaster the entire ceiling.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The dining table was a smooth piece of lath supported on both ends by stones.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
The Westphalen employs an ingenious system: Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail.
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
It was lathed and plastered, and no air admitted, except what might come through the floor.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby
The houses are in general of the meanest description, seldom exceeding one story in height, and being for the most part weather-boarded without, and lathed and plastered within.
At times the logs are clapboarded without, and are all lathed and plastered within.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
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
Columns are also fire-proofed by wrapping expanded metal or other metal lathing around them and plastering.
From Marvels of Modern Science by Paul Severing
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