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verb

Roughcast v. t.

To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.

To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.

To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.

noun

Roughcast n.

A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.

A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.

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Etymology of 'Roughcast'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roughcast" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the town, a-standin' by the state-house—a long, roughcast house in the corner, three stories high, with two doors; the door next the state-house is his office. Go past the state-house, which has a cupelo onto it, an' you see the jug an' whippin'-post. He's got ...

— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... turned into a street arched by old elms, and flanked by the houses of the most prosperous townspeople. 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. Each was surrounded by trim lawns and shrubbery. The church itself was set back from the street. It was of bluish stone, and half ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill