stuccon.
/ˈstʌkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈstəkoʊ/ 1.
a. A fine plaster, esp. one composed of gypsum and pulverized marble, used for covering walls, ceilings, and floors, and for making cornices, mouldings, and other decorations.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > fine
stucco1598
stuc1632
fine stuff1700
stookie1796
1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge iii. 94 There are yet remayning in Transtevero in Rome, certayne Children..which so perfectly seeme to be made in Stucco [It. stucco], that they haue deceaved even divers good Painters.
1616–17 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 465 Some heads, whereof, to my remembrance, there was but one of marble, the other of stucco or plaster.
1695 R. Graham Short Acct. Eminent Painters in J. Dryden tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 277 By the agreeable variety and richness of his Fancy, and his peculiar happiness in expressing all sorts of Animals, Fruit, Flowers, and the Still-life, both in Bass relievo, and Colours, acquir'd the reputation of being the best Master in the world, for Ornaments in Stucco, and Grotesque.
1721 G. Vertue Note Bks. (1930) I. 86 Cover'd it with stucho to form the muscles.
1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 305 In Rome..not only have the Remains of ancient Painting been seen, but other genteel Ornaments of Stucco [It. stucco] also.
1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xv. 148 A parcel of naked boys over the doors, in white stucco.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine Introd. 39 Halls and chambers..covered with white stucco, and this white stucco brilliant with colours, fresh as they were thousands of years ago.
1927 Travel Nov. 15/2 Low relief carvings and decorations in stucco adorn the pillars.
1978 E. Bishop Compl. Poems (1983) 186 The pharmacist had hung an empty wasps' nest from a shelf: small, exquisite, clean matte white, hard as stucco.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 22 Jan. 94/1 Early Italian Renaissance reliefs of stucco, terra cotta, cantapesta, and marble.
b. The art or activity of ornamenting walls, ceilings, cornices, etc., with stucco; work or ornamentation produced using stucco.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > plaster or stucco work > [noun]
pargetinga1425
parget1569
parjetory1642
parge-work1649
stucco work1685
stucco1697
stuccaturec1720
plasterwork1845
parging1862
pargetry1908
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata viii. 283 John de Vdine, Inventor, or Restorer of the Art of Stucco.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iii. 75 The roofs in all the best rooms..are stucko, which was wrought by an Italian.
1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 345 The chancel has been very elegantly fitted up with stucco by the late duke.
1845 E. Stone Chrons. Fashion I. iv. 239 The carved stucco of its halls and chambers, the magnificent sculpture of its gigantic chimney pieces, the rich embroidery of its velvet draperies.
1904 Builder 19 Mar. 305/2 Francis I. attracted to France some of the most capable of the Italian artists skilled in stucco.
2003 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 62 318/1 This miniature Pantheon, embellished with ornate reliefs, reflects Marc'Antonio's personal involvement in the art of stucco.
c. As a count noun. An ornament, moulding, or carving made of stucco.
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1753 ‘T. Broderick’ Lett. from Several Parts Europe & East II. lxxxv. 74 The finished mosaics, stuccos, and paintings, with which we see they were originally decorated.
1803 A. Dalmazzoni Antiquarian xvii. 235 The vaults of the ground floor have been adorned with beautiful stuccos by the same Artist.
1894 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 9 8 The influence of Ghiberti in the case of the marble reliefs has been noted by Bode and, in this stucco, this influence is even more strikingly felt.
1903 E. Wharton in Cent. Mag. Nov. 28/2 They are adorned, probably by French artists, with exquisite carvings and stucchi of the Louis XV and Louis XVI period.
1913 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 3 ii. 248 The original ground-floor itself is decorated with stuccos and pictures of interest to geologists.
1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) vii. 264 The dominant motif of the stuccoes—vines, stalks and curling tendrils—was marked by a realism that would disappear utterly from Islamic ornamentation.
2.
a. A type of coarse plaster or cement used for covering the rough exterior surfaces of walls in imitation of stone. Also called common stucco. Also figurative.bastard stucco, rough stucco, trowelled stucco, etc.: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > coarse
lime-work1589
stuc1632
compositiona1719
stucco1734
compo1823
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > finishing coat
stucco1734
intonaco1806
setting coat1812
finish1823
set1823
setting1823
skin coat1897
1734 Duchess of Marlborough Let. 17 June (1943) viii. 122 I have been this day at Bedford House, though I could not go out of my coach..now it is so much mended by the new wing and the doing it with stucco that I am sure there is not so good a house anywhere in the world.
1766 T. C. Overton Temple Builder's Compan. 14 The finishing is with rough-casted stucco, and rusticated windows.
1778 (title) Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented patent-stucco.
1780 Ann. Reg. 1779 118/1 As this cement is shorter than mortar or common stucco and dries sooner, it ought to be worked expeditiously in all cases.
1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 26 We despise stucco now as false and flimsy.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 507 It may not be amiss here to refer to some of the causes of the premature decay which takes place in stuccoes and cements.
1878 J. T. Trowbridge Guy Vernon in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 261 Behind the stucco of this world's politeness I find some moral framework not amiss.
1906 Young Woman's Jrnl. Nov. 502/2 All the houses and public buildings are of white stone or stucco, and are re-whitened..after the rainy season.
1954 Catholic Weekly (Sydney) 29 Apr. 6 The walls are cement rendered inside and finished in stucco outside.
2004 House & Garden Apr. 140 The new owners removed the old exterior cladding and replaced it with stucco.
b. U.S. A house whose external walls are plastered with stucco.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction
thatch-house1521
slate house1554
thack housec1600
frame house1627
log-house1662
straw1665
thatch1693
tin-house1798
fog house1799
leaf house1811
rock house1818
black house1819
blockhouse1821
white house1824
slab-and-bark house1826
brown house1845
brush house1854
soddy1877
hurdle-housea1879
bottle house1913
stucco1922
prefab1942
Portal house1944
Airey1945
yali1962
1922 Abilene (Texas) Daily Reporter 8 June 9/3 Two of the most modern and well built Stuccos in the City.
1962 Life 6 Apr. 88/1 (caption) Provincial stucco built 1918.
1976 C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xi. 50 The Simmons house turned out to be a two-story Monterey-style stucco.
1981 P. Mallory Killing Matter xvi. 167 A blue stucco at the corner of Delgado and Harding.
2014 J. Dahl Invisible City iii. 51 The house itself is a peach-tinted stucco.
3. Plaster of Paris. Now rare.Recorded earliest in compound word.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > plaster of Paris
plastera1387
plaster of Parisa1425
yesoa1533
gesso1596
gypsum1646
Paris plaster1855
stucco1897
hemi-hydrate1909
1826 J. Rennie New Suppl. Pharmacopœias 323 Plaster of Paris. Is prepared for casting stucco ornaments and statues, by calcining sulphate of lime (gypsum) or exposing it to the heat of a baker's oven, and then pounding and sifting it.
1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) iii. 32 Fixing a thin piece of stucco on to one end of a glass tube open at the other end.
1897 W. Millar Plastering ii. 35 Gypsum, from which plaster of Paris is made... In Italy it is known by the name of gesso; in Scotland it is called stucco;..and in the English trade..plaster.
1918 Architect & Engineer Mar. 120/1 The material thus produced is calcined gypsum, also commonly termed ‘stucco’
2006 R. Sharpe & G. Cork in J. E. Kogel et al. Industr. Minerals & Rocks (ed. 7) ii. 535/1 Calcined Gypsum. Gypsum chemically transformed by heat or pressure to remove three fourths of the water of crystallization is known as calcium sulfate hemihydrate, stucco, and plaster of paris.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.† (c) In sense 3, with the sense ‘made of plaster of Paris’. Obsolete.
(a) In sense 1a, with the sense ‘made of stucco; ornamented with stucco work’.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [adjective] > made or ornamented with stucco-work
stucco1730
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [adjective] > made of plaster of Paris
stucco1730
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > plaster or stucco work > [adjective]
stucco1730
stuccoed1758
1730 E. Wright Some Observ. France, Italy, &c. I. 225 'Tis all incrusted with the finest sorts of Marble; the Stucco-Roof adorn'd with Foliage gilt, and enliven'd with Figures of Angels and little Cherubs.
1738 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. vi. 192 Palladian walls, Venetian doors, Grotesco roofs, and Stucco floors.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 66 A stucco cabinet so curiously wrought as to appear like the finest marble.
1799 Hull Advertiser 16 Feb. 2/1 With marble chimney-pieces and stucco cornice.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 37 The Moslem architects..made great use of stucco ornament.
1892 U. R. Burke in Bk. Trinity Coll. Dublin viii. 210 Ten pilasters..supporting a handsome stucco frieze and bold cornice, the work of Italian artists. The pilasters themselves are ornamented with stucco scroll-work of florid Roman character.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 41 Both [rooms] have delicate stucco decoration of Adam style.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Dec. 75/1 On lunettes above the doors and roundels beneath the dome, Donatello's stucco bas-reliefs are at once animated and cool.
2009 Rijksmuseum Bull. 57 152/2 The stucco ceiling in the reception room..was destroyed.
(b) In sense 2a, with the sense ‘plastered with stucco; characterized by buildings plastered with stucco’.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective]
wandedc1593
brick-built1596
rock-built1596
mud-walled1607
sedgy1624
sodden1639
nogged1688
frame1760
logged1784
stucco1786
weatherboarded1794
piled1795
thick-walled1820
clapboarded1835
board-built1837
pebble-dashed1839
puncheoned1843
timber-framed1843
betimbered1847
pile-built1851
massy1855
bamboo-walled1858
portable1860
half-timber1874
stone-faced1874
Red River frame1879
ashlared1881
granolithic1881
brick-end1883
converted1888
steel frame1898
board-and-bat1902
traviated1902
steel-framed1906
prefabricated1921
prefab1937
multiwall1940
pre-engineered1955
curtain-walled1959
pre-fabbed1959
timber-frame1967
system-built1968
flat-pack1982
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [adjective] > covered with > covered with specific type
stuccoed1758
stucco1786
chunammed1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > house of specific material or construction
framed1623
black and white1656
stucco1786
unchinked1819
Wealden1956
Airey1982
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > abounding in stucco buildings
stucco1898
1786 Lady's Mag. Apr. 309/1 What could appear, more enchanting than this neat little stucco dwelling, the whiteness of its encrusted walls, contrasted by the enlivening green.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lx. 539 ‘Gardens’ was a felicitous word not applied to stucco houses with asphalte terraces in front, so early as 1827.
1897 W. Millar Plastering i. 33 The brothers Adam introduced into England stucco façades and composition enrichments.
1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin v. ii. 213 After we had left behind us what he called the ‘stucco world’ of the West End.
1906 A. Machen House of Souls 98 The dim stucco streets that were his first recollections.
1961 W. Percy Moviegoer i. i. 4 Here was the theater, a pink stucco cube, sitting out in a field all by itself.
1985 D. Koontz Door to December ii. xx. 185 Blank black windows and patches of pale-yellow stucco walls could be glimpsed between the shadowy forms of neatly shaped plum-thorn bushes.
2009 USA Today 18 Feb. 4/1 The sprawling development of stucco starter homes.
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1826 J. Rennie New Suppl. Pharmacopœias 323 Plaster of Paris. Is prepared for casting stucco ornaments and statues, by calcining sulphate of lime (gypsum) or exposing it to the heat of a baker's oven, and then pounding and sifting it.
1846 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Jan. 67 The period varies from ten to twelve hours, liable to the breaking, splitting or warping of the stucco matrices.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 52 Her knowledge and accomplishments had become as valueless as old-fashioned stucco ornaments.
b. Appositive, adverbial, instrumental, etc.
stucco-adorned adj.
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1856 W. Hughes Maunder's Treasury Geogr. 334/1 Marble..everywhere abounds in Italy—as humbler and more plebeian clay does in our island home, with its brick-built and stucco-adorned cities.
1864 Reader 3 Sept. 291/1 No flaunting stucco-adorned town of yesterday.
2010 S. P. Walz Toward Ludic Archit. 202 The castle-like main building with picturesque towers, wide hallways, and high, stucco-adorned ceilings.
stucco-fronted adj.
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1744 Daily Advertiser 25 Dec. (advt.) To be sold, Stone Lime and Ware, Terras, Alabaster Dust, and all sorts of Plaister.., at the Stucco-fronted House the lower End of Bush-Lane.
1865 A. B. Edwards Half a Million II. xlix. 281 A big stucco-fronted, many-windowed house.
2007 Observer (Nexis) 25 Feb. 11 I live in a tall, narrow, stucco-fronted, early-Victorian house.
stucco-moulded adj.
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1865 S. E. Warren Man. Drafting Instruments & Operations iv. 115 A frame of plain mouldings is more appropriate for a geometrical drawing than is a carved or stucco-moulded frame.
2003 S. Haghshenās tr. H. Āyatollāhi Bk. Iran 151 Another stucco-moulded portrait of a king has also been discovered in the excavations.
stucco paint n.
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1840 Belfast News-Let. 12 Oct. (heading) Roman Cement and Stucco Paint.
1843 Builder 12 Aug. 323/1 Patent Stucco Paint and Patent Stucco Paint Cement.
2007 R. Lakin Getting Old is Criminal xiv. 103 The stucco paint on our buildings is getting shabby.
stucco plaster n.
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1744 Specif. & Surrender Roll (P.R.O.: C 73/4) m. 32 New Invention of a Lime Stucoe Plaster Morter Cement and Manure of and from Cockle Oyster and other Sea Shells by grinding pounding or burning the same.
2010 Mercury (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 5 The exterior of the building comprises both sandstone and stucco plaster.
stucco plasterer n.
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1779 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 23 Oct. 2/4 William Roberts, Stucco Plaisterer and Slater.
1787 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 177 in Parl. Papers (1845) XLVIII. 351 Thomas Henderson, of the City of York, Stucco Plaisterer.
2003 J. M. Truettner Aspirations Excellence 98 George Gill..(1796-1873) was a highly regarded stucco plasterer in New Haven.
stucco worker n.
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1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman 339 Stucco-Worker.
1897 W. Millar Plastering i. 26 During the reign of Henry VIII,..many Italian stucco workers found their way into this country.
2014 R. K. Garelick Mademoiselle (2015) viii. 209 Maggiore sent one of his stucco workers north to Paris, so that Chanel could consult with him personally on the exact color she wanted for her villa's exterior.
C2.
stucco paper n. now historical a kind of embossed wallpaper designed to resemble stucco work.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > wall-paper > types of
stucco paper1749
caffoy paper1750
flock-paper1750
domino paper1839
wood-hanging1869
Morris1872
velvet-paper1875
flock1881
lincrusta1882
anaglypta1887
screen print1928
scenics1934
1749 in T. Rosoman London Wallpapers (2009) 16 144 yds. Stoocoe paper put upon the Stair case with Bord[e]r.
1751 Lady Luxborough Let. 13 Feb. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 236 Moore..talks to me of a sort of stucco-paper... The paper is stamped so deep as to project considerably, and is very thick and strong; and the ornaments are all detached, and put on separately.—As suppose, for example, it were the pattern of a common stucco-paper, which is generally a mosaic formed by a rose in a kind of octagon: it seems, in this new way one of these roses is to be bought singly.
1752 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 76 If your parlour is stuccoed (though I think I should rather hang it with stucco paper), you must have plugs of wood where you think to hang pictures.
2015 J. Stobart in J. Raven Lost Mansions ii. 30 Room 4 was hung with 110 yards of crimson ground stucco paper.
stucco work n. mouldings and other decorations worked in stucco (sense 1a).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > plaster or stucco work > [noun]
pargetinga1425
parget1569
parjetory1642
parge-work1649
stucco work1685
stucco1697
stuccaturec1720
plasterwork1845
parging1862
pargetry1908
1685 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. 326 He built himself a House, which he adorned with Stucco Work.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. ii. xxxiv. 232 The rooms are lined with stocco work, painted in the Indian taste.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert iv. 29 The rich carvings of the frieze and..the ornate stucco-work of the ceiling..had been executed in the sixteenth century, from Italian designs.
2007 C. Brown et al. Karen Brown's Switzerland 77 The interior is ornamented by elaborate stucco work and features a spectacular Baroque pulpit.
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stuccov.
/ˈstʌkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈstəkoʊ/ 1.
a. transitive. To coat or cover (a cornice, wall, room, etc.) with fine plaster; to ornament with stucco work; to apply stucco (stucco n. 1a) to. Also with over.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > plaster or stucco work > ornament with plaster or stucco work [verb (transitive)]
pargeta1398
pargen1536
parge1637
stucco1726
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. f. 48v A Cornice..ought to be firmly wrought and well stucco'd over [It. stuccata] to repel all the injuries of the weather.
1754 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 38 Agreed that instead of stuccoing the old court..it be cas'd with Ketton Stone.
1835 W. Matthews Hydraulia xii. 225 The skilful manner in which the walls were stuccoed, the exquisite designs for adorning them,..produced such pleasurable effects, as no words, however forcible, or significant, can adequately depict.
1846 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 8 46 The walls have been stuccoed and painted, but the paintings are so much destroyed as to be scarcely distinguishable.
1900 School of Mines Q. Apr. 266 When the hewing was thus completed the whole was once more stuccoed.
1927 P. Toynbee Strawberry Hill Accts. 153 [£47 5 s. for] stuccoing the chapel.
2007 C. Van Cleave Master Drawings Ital. Renaissance 180/1 The private loggia of Leo X..was being decorated and stuccoed.
b. transitive. To coat or cover (a wall or building) with coarse plaster or cement, esp. in imitation of stonework; to apply stucco (stucco n. 2) to.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > plaster > plaster in imitation of stonework
stucco1780
1780 Monthly Rev. May 367 Messrs Wyatt are engaged to stucco a great number of capital houses with it this summer.
1790 W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 11 It may be built of wood, and stuccoed.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 26 If an old wall is to be stuccoed, all..vegetation must previously be removed.
1835 Archit. Mag. Feb. 74 In stuccoing the front of a house in or about London, for example, no builder need ever have recourse to any of the metallic cements.
1897 F. M. Crawford Corleone I. v. 81 Many of the houses on the main street have now been stuccoed and painted.
1949 Pop. Mech. June 193/1 Final outside jobs consist of stuccoing the exterior surface and installing gutters.
2013 A. J. Salat Build your House & Save xi. 117 Our plan to stucco the outside after the spring rains was still intact, but suddenly I felt a bit lazy.
2. transitive. figurative and in extended use. To coat or cover with something likened to stucco; to plaster.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with or as with specific other things
clodc1420
pavea1425
foamc1540
overstain1559
thatch1589
sinew1592
to ice over1602
curd1654
overfleece1717
fleece1730
stucco1774
oversmoke1855
bepaper1861
beboulder1862
overflower1876
sack1880
overglass1883
to board over1885
pad1885
lather1917
cobweb1928
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 42 The apartment at the end [of a marmot's hole] is very warmly stuccoed round with moss and hay.
1776 C. Anstey Election Ball 29 Ye must stucco, and whitewash your Faces.
1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) III. iii. 74 She was a great admirer of what the world stuccoes with the name of ‘talent’.
1985 C. James Falling towards Eng. (1986) iv. 33 My ceiling in Tufnell Park..looked as if a loosely stretched and seriously crumpled old tarpaulin had been stuccoed with night-soil.
2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon i. 63 A suety kid whose face was stuccoed with acne.
Derivatives
ˈstuccoed adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > plaster or stucco work > [adjective]
stucco1730
stuccoed1758
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [adjective] > covered with > covered with specific type
stuccoed1758
stucco1786
chunammed1859
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall x. 111 I have observed the same purple efflorescencies on a damp stuckoed wall in the chapel at St. Michael's Mount.
1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin ii. 14 Fragments of carving, or pieces of stuccoed tracery, together with broken vases and uprooted shrubs, littered the garden.
1884 G. Allen Philistia II. 18 The noisy stuccoed modern watering-place.
1994 P. D. James Orig. Sin i. 9 The delicate stuccoed ceiling and the carved cornice contrasted incongruously with the modern reception desk.
2009 Vanity Fair Mar. 322/2 Beverly Hills High School..is a buff, stuccoed, Normanesque pile built in 1928.
ˈstuccoing n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > plastering in imitation of stonework
stuccoing1733
1733 A. Pope Let. Mar. in Corr. (1956) III. 356 I cannot proceed in my Stucco-ing, till I see your Lordship & have your directions about the Upper Cornish of my house, & the Moldings & members of the Entablature.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §517 Exterior Finishing is the term applied to stuccoing, roughcasting, and plastering.
1982 S. Tobriner Genesis of Noto viii. 153 He directed the stuccoing, wood carving, and metal ornamentation until his failing health put an end to his work in the 1760s.
2002 Nat. Home July 50/1 Stuccoing was the most expensive part of the process.
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