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roughcast

[ruhf-kast, -kahst] / ˈrʌfˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /






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The roughcast yellow walls of the 17th-century home near the German border, where the future Fuehrer was born on April 20, 1889, have been whitewashed over by the Austrian architecture firm Marte.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

A roughcast fireplace addition in Vienna, Ms. Robertson said, amounts to “a little bit of Scotland clinging to a Viennese cottage-style villa.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014

Oscar Hammerstein II, a bulky man with a friendly, roughcast face, kept his bright blue eyes fixed on the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, | wherever an elm    arches, Shivelights and shadowtackle in long | lashes lace, lance, and pair.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges


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