mustard plaster

1. 1.

   a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient

   Synonymssinapism

   Broaderpoultice

Questions about mustard plaster

What does mustard plaster mean?

mustard plaster means "a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient".

What is another word for mustard plaster?

Close synonyms include sinapism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mustard plaster a common word?

mustard 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.