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Meanings of roughcast in English

Portuguese
chapisco
Wikidata

Coarse plaster surface used on exterior walls.

chapisco
Catalan
escalabornar

Hew roughly, without finishing the surface.

escalabornar
Synonyms
Examples for "rough-hew"
Examples for "rough-hew"
1
Every man had the right to rough-hew his own life.
Swirling Waters
2
He had rough-hewed his end, but the divinity had shaped it.
There & Back
3
Annja's feet felt the rough-hewed wood flooring under her.
Sacrifice
4
This most subtle medium the Star Maker now rough-hewed into the general form of a cosmos.
Star Maker
5
"'There is a divinity that shapes our ends,'" she thought, "'rough-hew them how we may.'"
A Spinner in the Sun
Usage of roughcast in English
1
For he really looked, when well examined, like all the virtues done in roughcast.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 / A Magaz...
2
He couldn't manage an intricate discussion about 'roughcast concrete', or 'the modulor' -not when he was so alarmed about things at home.
The marks of cain
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.
Perdido Street Station
4
"Yes," said Howard, "a high-minded house of roughcast and tile, with plenty of white paint inside, Chippendale chairs, Watts engravings.
Watersprings
Translations for roughcast
Portuguese
chapisco
Roughcast through the time