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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Then comes an enormous dining-hall, the coved ceiling of which, supported by noble pillars and ornamented with stuccoes in relief, is in perfect keeping with the style of the rest of the ornamentation.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
The colours used in the painted relief, and on the stuccoes are black, blue, red, green, and yellow; these are always kept distinct and never blended.
From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by W. Blanchard Jerrold
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
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
Nothing can be more festive than a brilliantly lighted hall, glowing with these woven pictures or arabesques, framed in gilded carvings or stuccoes.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
