roughcast
Example Sentences
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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
There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The tile-roofed, many-gabled single-family houses have roughcast beige exteriors, carefully tended gardens and little fences around every yard.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This man with lime and roughcast, doth present Wall, that vile Wall, which did these lovers sunder; And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content To whisper.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch