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- noun A
rendering for external walls, made by scattering smallpebbles onto a coat ofcement orplaster before it dries.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He yanks me back by my hair and slams me back down face-first into the pebbledash rooftop.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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With that peculiar leaden-footed clumsiness he was to display later in life, Wagner Jr told Humperdinck: "Your polyphonic texture is a true marvel", which could be a description of a variety of pebbledash.
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The mosaic of the pulverised concrete, akin to the pebbledash cast of the surrounding building walls.
The Forsaken 2010
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It can hold a single pebble in its beak, but can't pebbledash a semi.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary by David Sedaris – review Toby Litt 2010
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They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible chateau fronting the Lake of the Isles.
Main Street 2004
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The building was low-built red brick and pebbledash, purposely anonymous and tucked in an out of the way place.
Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994
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There was the original building, old and solid and grey, but to which had been added an oversized extension of breeze block and pebbledash.
Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992
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They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible château fronting the Lake of the Isles.
Main Street 1920
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They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible chateau fronting the Lake of the Isles.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The appeal of ultra-violet tanning seems to echo an inter-war builder's attachment to pebbledash: a cost-effective way to conceal shoddy exterior work, especially in weather-beaten places.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Tim Moore 2012
mollusque commented on the word pebbledash
They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible château fronting the Lake of the Isles.
--Sinclair Lewis, 1920, Main Street
March 7, 2009