STUCCO (stuccoes)

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Irregular inflected form: stuccoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stucco mean? 

• STUCCO (noun)
  The noun STUCCO has 1 sense:

1. a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces

  Familiarity information: STUCCO used as a noun is very rare.

• STUCCO (verb)
  The verb STUCCO has 2 senses:

1. decorate with stucco work

2. coat with stucco

  Familiarity information: STUCCO used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUCCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("stucco" is a kind of...):

plaster (a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stucco"):

render (a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls)

Derivation:

stucco (coat with stucco)

stucco (decorate with stucco work)

• STUCCO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decorate with stucco work

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

stuccoed ceilings

Hypernyms (to "stucco" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stucco (a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coat with stucco

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

stucco the ceiling

Hypernyms (to "stucco" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stucco (a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces)

 Context examples 

Tom understood his father's thoughts, and heartily wishing he might be always as well disposed to give them but partial expression, began to see, more clearly than he had ever done before, that there might be some ground of offence, that there might be some reason for the glance his father gave towards the ceiling and stucco of the room; and that when he inquired with mild gravity after the fate of the billiard-table, he was not proceeding beyond a very allowable curiosity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)