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plaster cast

noun as in rigid covering for broken part

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In 1993, to raise awareness about breast cancer, she made plaster casts of hundreds of women’s torsos and placed them in a cemetery-like installation on a lawn.

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Luckily, three years before, the company had taken a plaster cast of the trophy in order to make a miniature for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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He matched bullets to guns; he used plaster casts to identify footprints.

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He even ran a mile a day in a plaster cast for six weeks after an operation on his foot.

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A bad injury, and then photographs of him dancing in a nightclub with a plaster cast, saw the media turn on him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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