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stucco

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,499 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: stuccoes

Stucco is fine plaster used to coat and decorate walls. A stucco front, stucco mouldings, painted stucco.

It goes on wet and can be moulded before it sets, which is how the ornamental ceilings of the eighteenth century were made. Whole streets in London and Brighton are faced with it over plain brick, painted cream, and it needs repainting constantly.

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Definitions of stucco

  1. 1nounstuccoFine plaster used to coat and decorate walls.C1

    “The old villa had pink stucco walls and green shutters.”

stucco is a plaster.

Where it comes from

Italian stucco comes from a Germanic word meaning a crust or piece.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *(s)tewg- — to shock, butt, impact

  2. Proto-Germanic

    *stukkiją — stump, piece

  3. lng

    stucki — crust, fragment, piece

  4. roa-oit

    stucco

  5. Italian

    stucco — coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco

  6. English, today

    stucco

Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from roa-oit stucco, from lng stucki (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce. Related to stock.which sense? not on the entry?

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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stucco in the wild

  • In English, "stucco" refers to a cladding for the outside of a building and "plaster" to a cladding for interiors.

    Stucco

  • Other European languages, notably Italian, do not have the same distinction: In Italian, stucco means plaster, and serves for both.

    Stucco

  • Similarly, they are often added to clays, stucco, solid rocket fuel, and other pastes prior to molding and forming.

    Plasticizer

  • Canvas or stucco often lined the interior walls.

    Sod house

  • Where quoins are decorative and non-load-bearing a wider variety of materials is used, including timber, stucco, or other cement render.

    Quoin

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