stucco
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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
As the sky darkened over the white stucco church framed in palm trees and the dry peaks of the San Bernardino Mountains, fringed teenagers made their way inside, shaking their limbs and chattering in excitement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
When I was 6, we moved into a three-bedroom, pale-green stucco ranch that my dad had built and landscaped in Riverside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
When had her aunt’s worn beige carpets, wood-paneled walls, and stucco ceilings come to represent home?
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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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
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 Bechtel, John Hendricks
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 Baines, William Peter
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 Lee, Vernon
All along the walls, below the line of the stuccoes, were excavated shelves, on which stood numbers of small cinerary boxes, each bearing a name.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon
“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
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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
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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 Vasari, Giorgio
It is certain that Giulio educated a pupil as his Perino, for his stuccos; and this was, besides Primaticcio, a Gio.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
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
Here, across desert sprawl of stuccoed housing developments and saguaro-scattered foothills, is “ground zero”, said Mike Noble, the chief pollster at OH Predictive Insights in Phoenix.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2020
He included sumptuous royal quarters, with grand chimneys, stuccoed ceilings and carved wood paneling, but was never graced with a visit from a king or queen.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2019
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
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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 Gibson, Charles Dana
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 Cook, Dutton