lath and plaster

1. 1.

   a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster

   Broaderbuilding material

Questions about lath and plaster

What does lath and plaster mean?

lath and plaster means "a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster".

Is lath and plaster a common word?

lath and plaster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.