plaster of paris
巴黎石膏,石膏,石膏粉,石膏膏药
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- : calcined gypsum in white, powdery form, used as a base for gypsum plasters, as an additive of lime plasters, and as a material for making fine and ornamental casts: characterized by its ability to set rapidly when mixed with water.
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They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.
France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.
As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.
Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?
But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
Louis Petit de Bachaumon died; a native of Paris, known as the author of several literary works.
What though Maurice wanted to persuade me at Paris that I had better take a britska, as more fashionable?
In Paris, Joachim soon found that the royal road to success lay in denouncing loudly all superior officers of lack of patriotism.
I often recall the farewell lunch we had together at the Restaurant de Paris, in the Escolta.