stucco
noun
an exterior finish for masonry or frame walls, usually composed of cement, sand, and hydrated lime mixed with water and laid on wet.
stuccoes
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pluralof stucco.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof stucco (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
stucconounan exterior finish for masonry or frame walls, usually composed of cement, sand, and hydrated lime mixed with water and laid on wet.
Example Sentences
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Its art was largely expressed in the treatment of flat surfaces, using enameled bricks, painted stuccoes, figured bronzes, etc.
From Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 by Harry Lawrence Gage
All along the walls, below the line of the stuccoes, were excavated shelves, on which stood numbers of small cinerary boxes, each bearing a name.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
But the light struck upon the gilt stuccoes opposite me, and on a large expanse of fresco, the sacrifice of Iphigenia, with Agamemnon and Achilles in Roman helmets, lappets, and knee-breeches.
From Hauntings by Vernon Lee
Compared with it how our modern towns are dwarfed, and our hasty little palaces, our stuccoes and old iron!
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
Barbary gave her odoriferous woods, Egypt her ivory, Syria her stuccoes, Persia her tapestry, Constantinople her elegant mosaics.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
