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The phrase "plaster down" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically means to affix something firmly, usually with adhesive. For example: "I used some caulk to plaster down the loose tiles in the shower."
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That's because – I thought, as I carted yet another bag of plaster down to the bins – most of life is a compromise, a make-the-best-of-it bodge-job.
Never pour plaster down a sink or other drain.
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The hair, plastered down before, is now dry and soft, perfectly straight and downy and golden.
As Theo, Byron Jennings, his hair plastered down, his body constrained in a snug three-piece suit, makes some delicious expostulations.
I'd never seen him anywhere other than the bank, so it was a surprise when I caught sight of him one evening coming out of the water, white and strangely angular, in a pair of pale-blue shorts and a T-shirt, his hair plastered down over his forehead, his arms and chest glistening.
"Mort," on the other hand, "was the sudden tolling of bells, deep mourning, the whole village scuttling up the hill to the church and the young men carrying the coffin on their shoulders, their hair plastered down with brillantina, their spotless Sunday clothes the pride of their mothers or wives".
The hair on the top, meanwhile, had gone completely and in its place was a polished bald pate so shiny it was clear that the same product that went towards keeping his remaining hair plastered down was also used to add a little luster on top.
After a few moments, the walls around them start to crack, the windows shatter, the chimney crumbles, and plaster rains down, but they never avert their eyes from one another, even when the roof falls in.
Andy Hay's production reanimates their primal duel in an atmospheric 1940s New Orleans, where jazz tunes hang in the air like heat-haze and the neighbours argue so violently that plaster shakes down from the Kowalskis' ceiling.
Dust, earth and plaster rained down on him at every explosion.
London Fire Brigade's Graham Ellis said "heavy ornate plastering" came down from the ceiling of the Apollo.
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