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stucco

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stucco

Durable plaster finish for exterior walls, composed of sand and lime. In the 18th and 19th centuries stucco was used extensively to add dignity to brick buildings, by giving the illusion that they were built of stone. The stucco would be moulded, coursed, or coloured to imitate ashlar masonry. John Nash used stucco to create the illusory stone palaces that surround Regents Park, London (begun 1811).
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It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslant-wise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
As he struck the wall, pieces of stucco similar to that used in the ground work of arabesques broke off, and fell to the ground in flakes, exposing a large white stone.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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