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  • n  a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
  • n  a rough preliminary model
  • v  shape roughly
  • v  apply roughcast to
    roughcast a wall
  • v  hew roughly, without finishing the surface

  • Oscar Hammerstein II, a bulky man with a friendly, roughcast face, kept his bright blue eyes fixed on the stage.
  • There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad.
  • The tile-roofed, many-gabled single-family houses have roughcast beige exteriors, carefully tended gardens and little fences around every yard.

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