roughcast

Example Sentences

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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

The tile-roofed, many-gabled single-family houses have roughcast beige exteriors, carefully tended gardens and little fences around every yard.

From Time Magazine Archive

This man with lime and roughcast, doth present Wall, that vile Wall, which did these lovers sunder; And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content To whisper.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas