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How to pronounce roughcast in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rough-hew
Type of hew, hew out
Type Words
Type of plaster
Type Words
Type of daub, plaster


roughcast a wall.
Type Words
Type of model, simulation
Type Words
Type of work, mold, mould, forge, shape, form

Examples of roughcast

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There are prominent mullions and timbered gables, and the walls are covered with roughcast.
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This house is in roughcast brick with a slate roof on a stone plinth, and it has rusticatedquoins.
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This house is constructed in roughcast stone and brickwork, under a slate roof with a sandstone ridge.
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This is a public house built in roughcast brickwork on a stone moulded plinth with rusticatedquoins and a slate roof.
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There are several examples of Voysey's design near Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, with roughcast walls and massive rendered stacks on sweeping slate roofs.
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More examples
  • A coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
  • Shape roughly
  • A rough preliminary model
  • Apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall"
  • Rough-hew: hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone or timber"
  • Roughcast or pebbledash is a coarse plaster surface used on outside walls that consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel, and often pebbles or shells. The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown at the working surface with a trowel or scoop. ...
  • A crude model; A rough surface finish, as of a plaster or stucco wall; A mixture of pebbles or similar material used to finish a plaster or concrete wall; To shape crudely; To apply a roughcast finish to a wall
  • A rough render finish to external walls, usually incorporating gravel.
  • Covered in a rough material such as pebbledash.