Meaning
plasterboard, drywall
- a building material consisting of plaster between sheets of paperboard (drywall, plasterboard)
In a sentence
Abbiamo diviso la stanza costruendo una parete in cartongesso.
We divided the room by building a plasterboard wall.
Il controsoffitto in cartongesso permette di nascondere i faretti.
The plasterboard false ceiling allows spotlights to be hidden.
Appendere quadri pesanti sul cartongesso richiede tasselli appositi.
Hanging heavy pictures on plasterboard requires special wall plugs.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| cartongesso | masculine · singular |
| cartongessi | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- Compound noun (carta + gesso). Mostly used as an uncountable mass noun.