Mixture of water, sand, lime, and small stones, used to cover the outside of buildings.
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Examples for "roughcast "
Examples for "roughcast "
1 For he really looked, when well examined, like all the virtues done in roughcast .
2 He couldn't manage an intricate discussion about ' roughcast concrete', or 'the modulor' -not when he was so alarmed about things at home.
3 He began to unscrew the panel behind the thing's "head," a roughcast chunk of grey metal at the top of its cylindrical body.
4 "Yes," said Howard, "a high-minded house of roughcast and tile, with plenty of white paint inside, Chippendale chairs, Watts engravings.
1 The deputations from Dauphiné, from Crépi in Valois, to which the duke of Orleans belonged, and from Provence, were received with loud applause.
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