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• We drove around until we spotted a white, stucco, "Greekesque" motor inn.1993, Peter McGehee, Beyond happiness: the intimate memoirs of Billy Lee Belle, page 18. From the entry Greekesque
• Somewhat further removed is a stucco plaque with two goats clymant by a grapevine (Erdmann, no. 38).1978, Christopher J. Brunner, Sasanian Stamp Seals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN…. From the entry clymant
• A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.1978, Howard Wolf, Forgive the Father: A Memoir of Changing Generations, Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry microportrait
• He had recently moved to a cul-de-sac where every house has stucco walls, a ceramic tile roof, and bland xeriscaping.2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 02 Dec 2017. From the entry xeriscaping
• He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry swag
• Parges might subsequently be whitewashed for a more refined appearance, or used later as the scratch coat for stucco.1991 July–August, Paul Briggs, “Mortars & finishes”, in The Old-House Journal, volume XIX, number 4, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Old House…. From the entry parge
• Above the whole were vaults all around, ten feet high, ornamented with marvelous narrative reliefs of stucchi and figures.1978, Elisabeth B. MacDougall, editor, Fons Sapientiae: Renaissance Garden Fountains, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University…. From the entry stucchi
• The couple’s stucco, Pueblo-revival style home sits on a hill in a gated community at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains.2025 March 7, “Authorities will reveal new findings in mysterious deaths of Gene Hackman and wife”, in The Guardian, sourced from…. From the entry Santa Fe
• On the Costa, a street full of gilders, carpenters, carvers, and stucco experts, their status as Inglesi—bourgeois as well as fine artists—set them apart.1996, Carolyn Burke, “Anglo-Florence (1907–10)”, in Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry gilder
• I did murals there as well, designs for windows, bas relief and otherwise, sgraffitoes – a very special technique cut in stucco.1994, Hilda Kirkwood, Between the Lines, Ottawa: Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry sgraffito
• The Islamic variation of the candelabra tree, as seen on the stucco object, is further abstracted in the decoration of the later Susa bowl.1968, American Research Center in Egypt, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, page 122. From the entry candelabra tree
• William rented the house on the corner of Lefevre Terrace and Tynte Street: a two-storey home of local bluestone with stuccoed enrichments, in high Victorian Italianate style.2008, John Jenkin, William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son, unnumbered page. From the entry bluestone
• Half-columns of enriched Doric and a stuccoed and channelled blind arcade frame the shopfront, with plain brick upper floors embellished by quoined strips and a deep bracketed parapet.2005, Christine Casey, Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. From the entry quoined
• The whole wide, long sweep of the room was decorated with paneled plasterwork done by the hand of the same eighteenth-century master craftsman who had worked in the stucchi.2002, Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry stucchi
• It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter X, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 151. From the entry appoint
• We did Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, America’s first shopping center, and at holiday time, the beautifully lit red-tile-rooved stucco buildings, striking fountains and romantic courtyards are never more evocative.1993 December, Laura Glenn, “Shopping the Plaza”, in Seen, page 19, column 1. From the entry rooved
• We went into queer untidy courtyards and rooms that had once belonged to the rich, for there were remains of fine windows, carved stucco panels and recesses with delicate gatchwork.1935, Onera Amelia Merritt, Persia: Romance & Reality, page 254. From the entry gatchwork

Meaning of stucco

1. noun A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
2. noun A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.
3. noun A work made of stucco; stuccowork.

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How do you use stucco in a sentence?

Stucco is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We removed loose, cracked, spalled, deteriorated and delaminated concrete from the balcony soffits of 114 units as well as pool corbels to prevent it from falling, and removed all deteriorated, debonded and falling stucco from balconies.”

What is a short sentence with stucco?

“A stone staircase ‘well furnished with stucco’ led to Dr.”

What does stucco mean?

Stucco means a material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.