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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

How To Use roughcast In A Sentence

  • The Irish Georgian Society is restoring this house, which will include repairing the roof with its small slates and preserving all the original features such as the roughcast limewashed walls.
  • It was built in 1924 by Captain Wolte Murray of brick and roughcast with lattice windows all under a slate roof.
  • On the roughcast wall only a few letters of the name Kaplan et Zanin were still legible. Maigret and the Man on the Bench
  • When the roughcast was delivered to me, I had to stop up the air holes and the core hole, to correct the various defects, and to polish the bronze with files and very fine emery.
  • The houses will have timber windows and sheeting, and a brick and roughcast render.
  • Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, 'wherever an elm arches, John Lundberg: Turning Poetry Into Music
  • There are no architectural features, with one exception of a roughcast rustic bridge in the left foreground.
  • They resembled each other like drops of water; each one stood in the middle of its fields, the garden was by the roadside, shut off by a wooden fence; the house, roughcast, consisted of four large rooms, and behind it was a good - sized square of farm-buildings. Selected Polish Tales
  • She was aware that her neighbour had previously been conned by callers who had replaced guttering and some of the roughcast on her bungalow walls.
  • The roughcast house rented by the city was ‘wholly insufficient for securing the health and comfort of the children’ and required a large amount of fuel to heat.
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