stucco
To coat or decorate with stuccoTo coat or decorate with stucco.
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» The house was clad in brightly colored stucco.
Lumi · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTo coat or decorate with stucco.
verputzen
штукатуритьštukaturitʹ
coat with stucco
Examples
3 sentencesThe house was clad in brightly colored stucco.
Ben was stuccoing the outside of the house.
The house's stucco was cracking.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from OBorrowed from Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“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.
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Forms
stuccos, stuccoing, stuccoed, stuccoedSynonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.