roughcast
Americannoun
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Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall.
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a crudely formed pattern or model.
verb (used with object)
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to cover or coat with roughcast.
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to make, shape, or prepare in a rough form.
to roughcast a story.
noun
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a coarse plaster used to cover the surface of an external wall
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any rough or preliminary form, model, etc
adjective
verb
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to apply roughcast to (a wall, etc)
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to prepare in rough
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(tr) another word for rough-hew
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Example Sentences
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The roughcast yellow walls of the 17th-century home near the German border, where the future Fuehrer was born on April 20, 1889, have been whitewashed over by the Austrian architecture firm Marte.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
A roughcast fireplace addition in Vienna, Ms. Robertson said, amounts to “a little bit of Scotland clinging to a Viennese cottage-style villa.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
The tile-roofed, many-gabled single-family houses have roughcast beige exteriors, carefully tended gardens and little fences around every yard.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad.
From Time Magazine Archive
The store had a high, sharp gable to the street, and showed its timbers through the roughcast of its wall, which was sprinkled with broken glass that glistened in the sun.
From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean
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