Meaning & use
stucco wall
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Meaning
nouncountable
A wall whose outer surface is covered in stucco, a hardened plaster of cement, sand and lime, giving a rough or smooth coating.
Grammar: Countable: a stucco wall, the stucco walls of the house.
Patterns
- a stucco wall around something
A low stucco wall surrounded the courtyard and kept the afternoon heat out.
The painter spent two days repairing cracks in the stucco wall behind the garage.
They chose a white stucco wall for the front of the cottage.
Word forms
| plural | stucco walls |
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Common combinations
- a painted stucco wall
- A painted stucco wall in pale yellow brightened the lane.
- crack in a stucco wall
- A crack in a stucco wall can let water in.
- repair a stucco wall
- We hired a plasterer to repair the stucco wall.
- rough stucco wall
- He scraped his arm on the rough stucco wall.
Synonyms and how they differ
- rendered wall
- Rendered wall is the usual British phrase for a plastered exterior, while stucco is the American and architectural term.
- plaster wall
- Plaster wall more often refers to an interior wall, whereas stucco is a tougher outdoor coat.
- adobe wall
- An adobe wall is made of sun-dried clay bricks, not just coated, so the construction differs.
Word family
Commonly confused: stucco wall or stuck?
stucco wall vs stuck
Stuck is the past of stick and sounds different; a stucco wall has nothing to do with being stuck.
Practice
The house had a rough, cement-coated ___ painted terracotta.
Choose one answer.
A stucco wall is a wall coated in cement plaster. The other options name different structures or materials.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “stucco wall”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.