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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Origin of roughcast
Example Sentences
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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
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
The wall between the garden and hemp-field was roughcast with lime and pebbles.
From The Devil's Pool by Ives, George Burnham
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