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Roughcast   Listen
verb
Roughcast  v. t.  
1.
To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
2.
To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.
3.
To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.



noun
Roughcast  n.  
1.
A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
2.
A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.






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"Roughcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... innovations: they will see them all presently vanish and cried down. These are, 'tis true, but superficial errors; but they are of ill augury, and enough to inform us that the whole fabric is crazy and tottering, when we see the roughcast of our walls ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne



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