stucco
pronunciation
How to pronounce stucco in British English:
UK [ˈstʌkəʊ]
How to pronounce stucco in American English:
US [ˈstʌkoʊ]
-
- Noun:
- a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
-
- Verb:
- decorate with stucco work
- coat with stucco
Word Origin
- stucco (n.)
- fine plaster used as a wall coating, 1590s, from Italian stucco, from a Germanic source (compare Old High German stukki "crust, piece, fragment"), from Proto-Germanic *stukkjam, from PIE root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see stock (n.1)). The verb is attested from 1726. Related: Stuccoed; stuccoing.
Example
- 1. Stucco floor with partial vessels and stains from burning .
- 2. To the faraway eye he leaves the beach astonishingly clean , a homogeneous brown contrasting nicely with the aqua railings and the white stucco streets .
- 3. Except for a new solarium , the three-story residence with pale-lemon stucco walls looks from the outside as it did 110 years ago .
- 4. The building is adorned by the abundant stucco decor . The huge windows and the narrow espacements create the distinct geometrical arrangement of the frontage .
- 5. Floating right along next to us is the big wood carving of jesus on his cross , from the stucco church at the end of my street .