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

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

It is surrounded by a chain-link fence and sits across from a row of two-story stucco homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

At the heart of the compound is the original four-bedroom Spanish Revival mansion, defined by white stucco walls, hand-painted ceilings, and romantic courtyards.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

They had built a pretty nice stucco mall there, so Loga and Quendy said we should go in and buy some cool stuff to go out in.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

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

But the light struck upon the gilt stuccoes opposite me, and on a large expanse of fresco, the sacrifice of Iphigenia, with Agamemnon and Achilles in Roman helmets, lappets, and knee-breeches.

From Hauntings by Vernon Lee

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

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

Thus some works of an inferior Florentine artist were ornamented with stuccoes, carving, and gilding, by the celebrated Donatello, who, in his youth, practiced this art in connection with sculpture.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

“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

Nor/Ma’s industrial-greenhouse feel, and Scandinavian sweets on offer, might seem less authentic than the stuccoed rooms and layer cakes over at Gerbeaud, or the outright grandiosity of the New York Café.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

From the stuccoed mansions of London’s embassy district of Belgravia to the glass penthouses along the River Thames, the British capital’s high-end real estate has long attracted Russian and other wealthy foreign buyers.

From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2023

Our eyes were immediately drawn across the street to the stuccoed brick Freemason Street Baptist Church, designed by Thomas U. Walter in the Gothic Revival style and built in 1848.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

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