Sentence:  I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four <WSD>plaster-of-Paris</WSD> ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs