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Roughcast

verb
1.
Shape roughly.
2.
Apply roughcast to.
3.
Hew roughly, without finishing the surface.  Synonym: rough-hew.





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"Roughcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the number again. The house and grounds are still in the same dislocated condition; in short, they finish nothing but children; even Mr. Bentley's Gothic stable, which I call Houynhm castle, is not roughcast yet. We went to see More-park, but I was not much struck with it, after all the miracles I had heard Brown had performed there. He has undulated the horizon in so many artificial mole-hills, that it is full as unnatural as ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole


Words linked to "Roughcast" :   rough-hew, shape, simulation, form, work, forge, mold, hew out, mould, daub, hew, model, plaster


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