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Roughcast   Listen
noun
Roughcast  n.  
1.
A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
2.
A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.






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"Roughcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Roughcast" :   form, forge, mould, model, hew out, simulation, shape, work



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