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Neighbors and people driving by rushed to the scene to help, and some removed chunks of stucco wall covering the children, bringing them to safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

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

The building is all pink stucco and even pinker stone.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

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

Nothing can be more festive than a brilliantly lighted hall, glowing with these woven pictures or arabesques, framed in gilded carvings or stuccoes.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

The colours used in the painted relief, and on the stuccoes are black, blue, red, green, and yellow; these are always kept distinct and never blended.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard

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

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

“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

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

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 Walpole, Horace

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

Johnson was one of several top politicians who turned up to the event, held at the Lebedevs’ £6m stuccoed mansion overlooking Regent’s Park.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2019

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

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

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

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