stucco

Speech parts

1. stucco - Noun

2. stucco - Verb

Meaning

Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.

To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

plaster putty ground coat lime gypsum alabaster dab plastering cast composition concrete facing paint render
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Antonyms

fight dispute counter contest resist deny
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Hypernyms

grace surface coat plaster decorate ornament

Hyponyms

render

Phrases with the word

stucco work stucco moulding

Derivatives

stuccoes stuccos stuccoed stuccoing

Anagrams

Succot

Examples

Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering. Vitruvius

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. Martin Filler

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stuccoed ceilings Source: Internet

All four axial entrances were richly decorated with painted stucco reliefs, of which fragments survive. Source: Internet

At the center sits a vibrant stucco home designed by Gerard Colcord, an architect whose plethora of Southern California homes have been lived in by celebrities such as Bob Newhart, Dean Martin and Nicolas Cage. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

stubless stublike stubtail stucco moulding stucco work stuccodor