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.
stuccos
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pluralof stucco.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“The richness of the materials used, the marbles, the stuccos decorated with gold leaf ... testifies that we are dealing with works created for the imperial family,” he says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2023
By turning a corner, you can get the white columns of the Old South, the brown brick of Oklahoma City, the bright stuccos of Florida.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colors and textures seemed very bland compared to the warm and bright bricks and stuccos of the houses around C Average.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
The ceilings, even of the passages, are of the most beautiful stuccos in the best taste of grotesque.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
It is certain that Giulio educated a pupil as his Perino, for his stuccos; and this was, besides Primaticcio, a Gio.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi
