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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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
There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oscar Hammerstein II, a bulky man with a friendly, roughcast face, kept his bright blue eyes fixed on the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's on the green a-middle of the town, a-standin' by the state-house—a long, roughcast house in the corner, three stories high, with two doors; the door next the state-house is his office.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
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