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verb

Roughcast v. t.

To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.

To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.

To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.

noun

Roughcast n.

A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.

A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.

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Etymology of 'Roughcast'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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

... 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