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Roughcast

noun
1.
A coarse plaster for the surface of external walls.
2.
A rough preliminary model.





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... re-issues, for the help of many thousands more, his own songs of the memories of the Nation, addressed to a Nation that has not yet forfeited the praise of Milton. Milton said of the Englishman, "If we look at his native towardliness in the roughcast, without breeding, some nation or other may haply be better composed to a natural civility and right judgment than he. But if he get the benefit once of a wise and well-rectified nurture, I suppose that wherever mention is made of countries, manners, or men, ...
— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave


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


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