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roughcast

[ ruhf-kast, -kahst ]

noun

  1. Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
  2. a crudely formed pattern or model.


verb (used with object)

roughcast, roughcasting.
  1. to cover or coat with roughcast.
  2. to make, shape, or prepare in a rough form:

    to roughcast a story.

roughcast

/ ˈ°ùÊŒ´ÚËŒ°ìɑ˲õ³Ù /

noun

  1. a coarse plaster used to cover the surface of an external wall
  2. any rough or preliminary form, model, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. covered with or denoting roughcast
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to apply roughcast to (a wall, etc)
  2. to prepare in rough
  3. tr another word for rough-hew
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ°ù´Ç³Ü²µ³óËŒ³¦²¹²õ³Ù±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • °ù´Ç³Ü²µ³óc²¹²õ³Ùe°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of roughcast1

First recorded in 1510–20; rough + cast
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A roughcast fireplace addition in Vienna, Ms. Robertson said, amounts to “a little bit of Scotland clinging to a Viennese cottage-style villa.â€

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The store had a high, sharp gable to the street, and showed its timbers through the roughcast of its wall, which was sprinkled with broken glass that glistened in the sun.

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If we look at his native towardliness in the roughcast, without breeding, some nation or p. 6other may haply be better composed to a natural civility and right judgment than he. 

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The wall between the garden and hemp-field was roughcast with lime and pebbles.

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For he really looked, when well examined, like all the virtues done in roughcast.

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