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stucco

[stuhk-oh] / ˈstʌk oʊ /


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Dubbed the French Ivy House thanks to the abundance of ivy covering the stucco walls, the 3,473-square-foot layout of the star’s former dwelling features plenty of space.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

At the heart of the compound is the original four-bedroom Spanish Revival mansion, defined by white stucco walls, hand-painted ceilings, and romantic courtyards.

From MarketWatch Mar. 5, 2026

The city of 600,000, with its white stucco buildings and palm-lined streets, looked something like a war zone.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 23, 2026

Its stucco walls and Spanish arches were once part of a Pacific Coast Borax company town, later abandoned when the boom ended.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2026

Aunty Uju’s condo was in a cluster of stucco buildings, the neighborhood carefully landscaped, boulders placed at corners, and in the evenings, friendly people walked their handsome dogs.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But the light struck upon the gilt stuccoes opposite me, and on a large expanse of fresco, the sacrifice of Iphigenia, with Agamemnon and Achilles in Roman helmets, lappets, and knee-breeches.

From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon

Its art was largely expressed in the treatment of flat surfaces, using enameled bricks, painted stuccoes, figured bronzes, etc.

From Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 by Gage, Harry Lawrence

Nothing can be more festive than a brilliantly lighted hall, glowing with these woven pictures or arabesques, framed in gilded carvings or stuccoes.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

All along the walls, below the line of the stuccoes, were excavated shelves, on which stood numbers of small cinerary boxes, each bearing a name.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

Heroes, Cantos Most nouns ending in o add es to form the plural; as, heroes, negroes, potatoes, stuccoes, manifestoes, mosquitoes.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks

“The richness of the materials used, the marbles, the stuccos decorated with gold leaf ... testifies that we are dealing with works created for the imperial family,” he says.

From Scientific American Aug. 9, 2023

By turning a corner, you can get the white columns of the Old South, the brown brick of Oklahoma City, the bright stuccos of Florida.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colors and textures seemed very bland compared to the warm and bright bricks and stuccos of the houses around C Average.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

It is certain that Giulio educated a pupil as his Perino, for his stuccos; and this was, besides Primaticcio, a Gio.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio

He utterly destroyed the marvellous statues, paintings, mosaics and stuccos, so that he left Rome not only stripped of every trace of her former majesty, but destitute of shape and life.

From The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Vasari, Giorgio

Exposure to the southern climate and to its Spanish Colonial Revival legacy of stuccoed buildings with red tile roofs inspired local residents and their architects.

From Seattle Times Sep. 8, 2023

From the stuccoed mansions of London’s embassy district of Belgravia to the glass penthouses along the River Thames, the British capital’s high-end real estate has long attracted Russian and other wealthy foreign buyers.

From Reuters Jan. 31, 2023

Downtown, amid the handful of buildings that make up Judd’s legacy, are small gallery and studio spaces, restaurants with seasonal menus, and adobe buildings stuccoed white and hung with neon signs.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2018

A house loomed into view, a three-storey concrete bunker with a peaked roof and stuccoed walls.

From The Guardian Jun. 4, 2016

What remained was the artificial lake and island with its two stone bridges supporting the driveway, and, by the waters edge, a crumbling stuccoed temple.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

It was just so common for me to know these things, like stuccoing the door, the house outside.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 29, 2022

As we talked, two Latinos were stuccoing a gas station across the highway.

From The New Yorker Oct. 24, 2016

He was always, brush in hand, perched up on a temporary stage, painting earnestly, fiercely, 'with the inveterate diligence of a little devil stuccoing a mud wall!' cried flaming Mr. Fuseli.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

Phil had been studiously stuccoing her toast with marmalade, and she bit into it before looking at her father.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana




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