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roughcast

[ruhf-kast, -kahst] / ˈrʌfˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /






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The roughcast yellow walls of the 17th-century home near the German border, where the future Fuehrer was born on April 20, 1889, have been whitewashed over by the Austrian architecture firm Marte.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

A roughcast fireplace addition in Vienna, Ms. Robertson said, amounts to “a little bit of Scotland clinging to a Viennese cottage-style villa.”

From New York Times Jul. 3, 2014

Oscar Hammerstein II, a bulky man with a friendly, roughcast face, kept his bright blue eyes fixed on the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean




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