roughcast
/ˈrʌfkɑːst
/noun [mass noun]
Plaster of lime, cement, and gravel, used on outside walls.She was aware that her neighbour had previously been conned by callers who had replaced guttering and some of the roughcast on her bungalow walls....
- A new purpose-built thing in white roughcast, it doubled as a tourist information office and flew the Starred Circle flag of Europe.
- It was built in 1924 by Captain Wolte Murray of brick and roughcast with lattice windows all under a slate roof.
adjective
1(Of a building or part of a building) coated with roughcast.The roughcast house rented by the city was ‘wholly insufficient for securing the health and comfort of the children’ and required a large amount of fuel to heat....
- The restaurant room was large, with white roughcast walls and wooden panels, exposed beams and dark wood furniture.
- The building's exterior is expressed as a complicated form of three white intersecting roughcast walls supporting a concrete convex roof.
2(Of a person) lacking refinement: she thought of the roughcast yeomen she would meet
verb (past and past participle roughcast) [with object]
Coat (a wall) with roughcast: the walls were roughcast as in an underground garage