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Oil painter's base (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gesso

(Other definitions for gesso that I've seen before include "smeared on for starters by artists" , "Artist's plaster" , "Type of plaster" , "Plaster of Paris" , "Could get you plastered" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.
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