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

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

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

Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, | wherever an elm    arches, Shivelights and shadowtackle in long | lashes lace, lance, and pair.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour