| 单词 | pebble-dash | 
| 释义 | pebble-dashn.adj. A. n.   Mortar with small stones embedded in it, used as a coating for external walls. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > 			[noun]		 > rough-cast or pebble-dash daubing1382 roughcasting1469 temper1594 roughcast1596 rough mortar1703 rough coating1791 slapdash1796 pebble-dashing1826 pebble-dash1831 harl1869 1831    Reg. Pennsylvania June 395/1  				Behold a neat, prim edifice with spack span new coat of pebble dash, surmounted by a smart cupola, and ball and vane aloft, gilded and glittering in the sun. 1879    Flobe Encycl. 497/1  				It [sc. Rough Casting] consists in dashing over the plaster, while wet, a fluid mixture of fine washed gravel, lime, and water, called rough-cast or pebble-dash. 1902    Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1901 App. iv. 106  				A cheap frame construction was used, the sides of which were treated with pebble-dash and the roof made of asphalted felt covered with crushed slag. 1989    Which? Apr. 172/1  				Cracks in rendering or pebbledash will also need to be repaired early on, since rainwater trapped behind the surface may freeze and expand.  B. adj.   Of, relating to, or treated with pebble-dash; pebble-dashed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > 			[adjective]		 > rough-cast or pebble-dashed roughcast1519 pebble-dashed1839 rendered1901 pebble-dash1911 1911    Encycl. Brit. XXI. 785/1  				Rough-cast or Pebble-dash plastering is a rough form of external plastering in much use for country houses. 1973    G. Moffat Deviant Death iv. 54  				A dull collection of pebble dash houses and wood trim in cardinal colours. 2009    N.Y. Times 18 Apr.  c1/5  				‘All the attention has been quite an upheaval, and she is quite tired,’ Miss Boyle's brother, John, told reporters Thursday outside her tiny pebbledash cottage in tiny, previously unexciting Blackburn, Scotland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pebble-dashv.  transitive. To decorate (an external wall) with small stones; to apply pebble-dash to (a building). Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1822    Let. in  C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape 		(1994)	 264  				About to plaister & pebble dash my House. 1893    New Oxford 		(Pa.)	 Item 25 Aug. 6/3  				The outside surface will be pebble-dashed and outlined in imitation of pointed stone work. 1926    News 		(Frederick, Maryland)	 23 Oct. 8/3  				Improvements..consist of repaving the walks, pebble dashing the rectory, and entire renovation of the interior. 1963    Italica 40 82  				The whole work is pebble-dashed with typographical errors. 1988    Financial Times 		(Nexis)	 20 Feb. (Weekend FT section) p. xvi  				They thrash around like the tentacles of a demented octopus, pebble dashing everybody within range with blobs of sauce. 1997    Times 4 July 21/6  				If you told any of the illuminati..that they lived in a suburb, they would probably come round and pebble-dash your house. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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