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• n  a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
• v  decorate with stucco work
  stuccoed ceilings
• v  coat with stucco
  stucco the ceiling

• Oh, how you can get stucco.
• Southern California, with its pagoda cinemas and eateries shaped like bulldogs, has long been noted for the world's largest crop of chicken-wire-and-stucco monstrosities.
• Its stucco teepees, built in the 1930s by Kentucky motor-inn visionary Frank Redford, had been frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes because the Wigwam's previous owners tried .

News & Articles

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• Heceta Head Lighthouse near Florence reopens after lengthy restoration
  The lighthouse has fresh coats of paint, new cement stucco and new windows that open to the Pacific. The red roof stands out with the background of the deep blue ocean and the green trees of the Coast Range.
  June 11, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Groucho Marx in Gold Seek
  You can get a house in wood:you can get brick:you can get stucco,said Groucho Marx, playing a shyster land developer, in the movie, Coconuts, ":boy, can you get stucco." Many people have gotten stucco in Florida property in the last few years.
• Alain Robbe-Grillet in Village Voice
  ...politely avid X (Giorgio Albertazzi) pursues the mysteriously diffident A (Delphine Seyrig) through a huge, mirror-encrusted château, complete with formal garden-"a universe," as Robbe-Grillet described it, "of marble and stucco, columns,...
• Francisco in San Francisco Chronicle
  Physically, North Beach hasn't changed much from 1940, when the Works Progress Administration's guide to San Francisco described Columbus Avenue as a "traffic-crowded artery, where stucco-framed commercial buildings with their awnings and signboards...