beplaster

Verb

beplaster (third-person singular simple present beplasters, present participle beplastering, simple past and past participle beplastered)

1. (transitive) To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub (with something).
   • Yet with talents like these, and an excellent heart,
     The man had his failings, a dupe to his art;
     Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread,
     And beplaister’d with rouge, his own natural red.1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation: A Poem, London: G. Kearsly, page 14
   • A starving man, however, little heeds conventional proprieties, especially on a South-Sea Island, and accordingly Toby and I partook of the dish after our own clumsy fashion, beplastering our faces all over with the glutinous compound, and daubing our hands nearly to the wrist.1846, Herman Melville, Typee, New York: Wiley & Putnam, Part I, Chapter 10, p. 91