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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

When I was 6, we moved into a three-bedroom, pale-green stucco ranch that my dad had built and landscaped in Riverside.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Before long, he was strong enough to break the springs that raised the door and crack the stucco framing it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 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

He lay flat on his back, staring blankly at the stucco ceiling with its intricate pattern of ridges and veins.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

Compared with it how our modern towns are dwarfed, and our hasty little palaces, our stuccoes and old iron!

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter

Then comes an enormous dining-hall, the coved ceiling of which, supported by noble pillars and ornamented with stuccoes in relief, is in perfect keeping with the style of the rest of the ornamentation.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

Thus some works of an inferior Florentine artist were ornamented with stuccoes, carving, and gilding, by the celebrated Donatello, who, in his youth, practiced this art in connection with sculpture.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

Barbary gave her odoriferous woods, Egypt her ivory, Syria her stuccoes, Persia her tapestry, Constantinople her elegant mosaics.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

“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

The ceilings, even of the passages, are of the most beautiful stuccos in the best taste of grotesque.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

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

Our eyes were immediately drawn across the street to the stuccoed brick Freemason Street Baptist Church, designed by Thomas U. Walter in the Gothic Revival style and built in 1848.

From Washington Post Nov. 5, 2021

Here, across desert sprawl of stuccoed housing developments and saguaro-scattered foothills, is “ground zero”, said Mike Noble, the chief pollster at OH Predictive Insights in Phoenix.

From The Guardian Oct. 30, 2020

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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