Noun:

महीन सिल्मिट, महीन चूना, प्लास्टर,

stucco's Usage Examples:

The walls, piers and arches, are all built in brick, covered with stucco, a great portion of which is preserved down to the present day.

The walls are in many places coated with stucco adorned with frescoes, including palms, doves, labara and other Christian symbols.

Its most important feature is a large stucco bas-relief, occupying a central position on the back wall of the sanctuary.

The most beautiful portion of the mosque, however, still exists in the prayer chamber of Hakim, where are to be found the earliest examples of the cusped arch and the origin of many of the geometrical patterns in stucco at the Alhambra.

Since then exterior ornamentation and architectural eccentricities have run riot, and the city is now a mixture of the plain one-storey and two-storey buildings of the Portuguese type, and fanciful modern creations, embellished with stucco and overtopping the others by many storeys.

The Madonna della Ghiara, built in 1597 in the form of a Greek cross, and restored in 1900, is beautifully proportioned and finely decorated in stucco and with frescoes of the Bolognese school of the early 17th century.

The buildings of Montevideo are chiefly of brick and broken stone, covered outside with plaster and stucco, of one to three storeys, with flat roofs, usually surmounted by a square tower, or mirador.

Remains of the original marble wall lining and stucco decoration also exist.

The houses, of wood or stucco, are painted in warm reds and yellows.

Modelling in stucco was extensively used.

Synonyms:

plaster, render,

Antonyms:

uglify, dishonor, disarrange,