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roughcast [′rəf‚kast] (civil engineering) A rough finish on a surface; in particular, a plaster made of lime and shells or pebbles, applied by throwing it against a wall with a trowel. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Doyle plainly reveres this roughcast landscape, his ancestral home, an area settled by Irish immigrants a century ago. To the street, it presents a long white roughcast wall, which moves a little in plane to accommodate the entrance. Pebble-dash outside, bare roughcast and whitewash within, the 1886 mission church that houses Darrell Viner's site-specific installation Eight Times Three, 2000, combines the spare elegance of an early Christian basilica with the utilitarian grottiness of a public lavatory. |
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