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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It's on the green a-middle of the town, a-standin' by the state-house—a long, roughcast house in the corner, three stories high, with two doors; the door next the state-house is his office.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend




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