roughcast

[ UK /ɹˈʌfkɑːst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a rough preliminary model
  2. a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
VERB
  1. shape roughly
  2. apply roughcast to
    roughcast a wall
  3. hew roughly, without finishing the surface
    rough-hew stone or timber
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How To Use roughcast In A Sentence

  • Some of these were of the old-fashioned, classic type, and others new examples of a national architecture seeking to find itself, -- white and yellow colonial, roughcast modifications of the Shakespearian period, and nondescript mixtures of cobblestones and shingles. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
  • A new purpose-built thing in white roughcast, it doubled as a tourist information office and flew the Starred Circle flag of Europe.
  • His backstreet bistro is beamed, roughcast, tongue and groove, decorated with bibulous 19th-century prints by Gilbert-Martin, barrels, etc.
  • Its roughcast walls are pitted; it has an air of frowsty, shut-up dereliction.
  • To the street, it presents a long white roughcast wall, which moves a little in plane to accommodate the entrance.
  • The Holiday Lodge, Christchurch, is a fancy sounding name for what are a collection of ageing, roughcast motel units in The Fall in New Zealand
  • Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches In like a lion
  • Its core is a white roughcast house of the Thirties, which still owes something to the Arts and Crafts tradition of maintaining an at least cosmetic adherence to local materials.
  • The careful restoration of this house will include repairing the roof with its small slates and preserving all the original features such as the roughcast limewashed walls.
  • The restaurant room was large, with white roughcast walls and wooden panels, exposed beams and dark wood furniture.
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