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Definition of Roughcasting
1. roughcast [v] - See also: roughcast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roughcasting
Literary usage of Roughcasting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archeological by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archæological Society (1888)
"Paid to Richard Robinson for 3 daies roughcasting of the south side of the steeple
and some other places upon the higher & lower leads .... iiis vid Paid to ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1865)
"The tower remains untouched, (if we except the roughcasting which the whole church
endured little more than a century later,) and forms a good specimen of ..."
3. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius, Adolphus William Ward, William Alfred Packard (1902)
"... and abundant stone-quarries ; and to the limestone found in these it was
contrived to give by roughcasting an effulgence similar to that of marble. ..."
4. The Panorama of Professions and Trades: Or Every Man's Book by Edward Hazen (1836)
"What is said of roughcasting ? THE SLATER. 1. For what particular property is
slate stone valuable? 2, 3. Whence are obtained the slates used in the United ..."
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