stucco

I’m a writer who has been sent out on assignment to the stucco estates of suburban Los Angeles to profile a young socialist named Hasan Piker.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Far easier to build the observatory of brick and to spray it with stucco, approximating concrete’s smooth contours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Dubbed the French Ivy House thanks to the abundance of ivy covering the stucco walls, the 3,473-square-foot layout of the star’s former dwelling features plenty of space.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

Before long, he was strong enough to break the springs that raised the door and crack the stucco framing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

He lay flat on his back, staring blankly at the stucco ceiling with its intricate pattern of ridges and veins.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Heroes, Cantos Most nouns ending in o add es to form the plural; as, heroes, negroes, potatoes, stuccoes, manifestoes, mosquitoes.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

Compared with it how our modern towns are dwarfed, and our hasty little palaces, our stuccoes and old iron!

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines

Barbary gave her odoriferous woods, Egypt her ivory, Syria her stuccoes, Persia her tapestry, Constantinople her elegant mosaics.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

Then comes an enormous dining-hall, the coved ceiling of which, supported by noble pillars and ornamented with stuccoes in relief, is in perfect keeping with the style of the rest of the ornamentation.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

Its art was largely expressed in the treatment of flat surfaces, using enameled bricks, painted stuccoes, figured bronzes, etc.

From Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 by Harry Lawrence Gage

“The richness of the materials used, the marbles, the stuccos decorated with gold leaf ... testifies that we are dealing with works created for the imperial family,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2023

By turning a corner, you can get the white columns of the Old South, the brown brick of Oklahoma City, the bright stuccos of Florida.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colors and textures seemed very bland compared to the warm and bright bricks and stuccos of the houses around C Average.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The ceilings, even of the passages, are of the most beautiful stuccos in the best taste of grotesque.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

He utterly destroyed the marvellous statues, paintings, mosaics and stuccos, so that he left Rome not only stripped of every trace of her former majesty, but destitute of shape and life.

From The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari

Exposure to the southern climate and to its Spanish Colonial Revival legacy of stuccoed buildings with red tile roofs inspired local residents and their architects.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

He won the speaker's office, a splendid 19th century confection of rich stonework, carved plaster and gilt partitions, along a corridor from the main parliament chamber under its stuccoed dome and arcade of horseshoe arches.

From Reuters ● Jul. 15, 2022

Downtown, amid the handful of buildings that make up Judd’s legacy, are small gallery and studio spaces, restaurants with seasonal menus, and adobe buildings stuccoed white and hung with neon signs.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018

His stuccoed house is painted a bright blue, a color inspired by the color of the cartoon sky in “The Simpsons.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2015

What remained was the artificial lake and island with its two stone bridges supporting the driveway, and, by the waters edge, a crumbling stuccoed temple.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

It was just so common for me to know these things, like stuccoing the door, the house outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

As we talked, two Latinos were stuccoing a gas station across the highway.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2016

Phil had been studiously stuccoing her toast with marmalade, and she bit into it before looking at her father.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson

He was always, brush in hand, perched up on a temporary stage, painting earnestly, fiercely, 'with the inveterate diligence of a little devil stuccoing a mud wall!' cried flaming Mr. Fuseli.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook