pebble-dashn.adj.
/ˈpɛbldaʃ/, U.S. /ˈpɛbəlˌdæʃ/ A. n.
Mortar with small stones embedded in it, used as a coating for external walls.
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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.
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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.
/ˈpɛbldaʃ/, U.S. /ˈpɛbəlˌdæʃ/ transitive. To decorate (an external wall) with small stones; to apply pebble-dash to (a building). Also in extended use.
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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.
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