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- noun Plural form of
stucco .
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Examples
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The grandest surviving decoration in the principal rooms — wall stuccos in Marmorino (a Venetian specialty made from quicklime and marble dust) — was beyond salvage.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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Other stuccos survived only in what are now the kitchen, guest rooms, and entrance hall.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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The art deco stuccos composition would depend on where and when they are made.
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: The art deco stuccos composition would depend on where and when they are made.
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The arched openings, set at intervals around the room and leading up to the balconies, were decorated with sculpted stuccos of heroic scenes.
Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995
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He utterly destroyed the marvellous statues, paintings, mosaics and stuccos, so that he left Rome not only stripped of every trace of her former majesty, but destitute of shape and life.
The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542
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The ground floors of the palaces and other building had been adorned with paintings, stuccos and statues, and these were buried under the debris, so that many good things have come to light in our own day.
The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542
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I coughed too, but I think it might be one of those "clay pipe" roofs that are popular on the stuccos.
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