stucco

stucco noun: a material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.

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Noun

stucco (countable and uncountable, plural stuccoes or stuccos or stucchi)

A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
- The intervals having been filled with stucco, after the manner described under that head, each is sprinkled with water, and well rubbed with the float until the surface becomes perfectly smooth. This stucco must be thoroughly dry before the paint or other finishing is applied.1869, Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopædia of Domestic and Social Economy, and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, volume IV, London: Cassell, Petter, and...
- 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.2021 July 2, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, “Firm held off on repairs because of stability issues in months before Surfside building collapse”, in CNN, archived from...
Synonyms:

plaster, render
A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.
A work made of stucco; stuccowork.
- A stone staircase ‘well furnished with stucco’ led to Dr. Delany’s panelled but otherwise undecorated library, Mrs. Delany’s boudoir or bedroom opening through an arched doorway on her painting closet and a fine drawing room about 30 ft. by 25 ft. which gave a splendid view over the city – fastigia...1967, C. P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, London, →ISBN, page 20
- Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...

Verb

stucco (third-person singular simple present stuccos or stuccoes, present participle stuccoing, simple past and past participle stuccoed)

(transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco.

Synonyms:

render, plaster

stucco meaning in Tamil and Bengali

stucco in Tamil

a plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior wall: காரை kārai

Examples of stucco in a sentence

We drove around until we spotted a white, stucco, "Greekesque" motor inn.
Somewhat further removed is a stucco plaque with two goats clymant by a grapevine (Erdmann, no. 38).
A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.

All 20 example sentences with stucco

Synonyms of stucco

Forms of stucco

Noun
plural	stuccoes
plural	stuccos
plural	stucchi
Verb
third-person singular present	stuccos
third-person singular present	stuccoes
present participle	stuccoing
past participle	stuccoed
past	stuccoed

Plural of stucco: stuccoes or stuccos

Origin of stucco

Borrowed from Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce. Related to stock.

Words formed from stucco

Words that rhyme with stucco

bucko

Questions about stucco

What does stucco mean?: Stucco means a material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
What is stucco in Tamil?: Stucco in Tamil is காரை (kārai). See Stucco meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stucco?: Stucco can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of stucco?: The plural of stucco is stuccoes.

Words near stucco in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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