NOUN
- a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient
How To Use mustard plaster In A Sentence
- Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable lips; a very damp white handkerchief lay in her lap, and two great tears, that it had not yet wiped away, ran down her flushed cheeks. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- a mustard plaster is calefacient
- The man has never been a child who has not been requested to take a dose of physic or bear a mustard plaster like a little captain, thereby inspiring himself with the greatest respect and admiration for the immense deglutitory capacity of that functionary, and the callosity of his epidermis. Sea-Gift. A Novel.
