Inflected stuccoed, stuccoing. Also 8 stucko. [f. STUCCO sb.] trans. To coat or plaster (a cornice, wall, etc.) with stucco; to ornament with stucco-work. Also with over.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 48 b. A Cornice … ought to be firmly wrought and well stucco’d over to repel all the injuries of the weather.
1754. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 38. Agreed that instead of stuccoing the old court … it be cas’d with Ketton Stone.
1774. G. Grenville, in G. Papers (1853), IV. 551. They have built it [a temple] entirely of marble, and stuccoed it over afterwards.
1782. Pennant, Journ. fr. Chester, 307. The roof beautifully stuccoed.
b. In mod. building: To coat or plaster (a wall, building) esp. in imitation of stone-work.
1790. W. Wrighte, Grotesque Archit., 11. It may be built of wood, and stuccoed.
1799. A. Young, View Agric. Lincoln., 26. If an old wall is to be stuccoed, all … vegetation must previously be removed.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 1587. Render float and set the walls in all the rooms … and stucco the committee-room.
1896. F. M. Crawford, Corleone, v. Many of the houses [in Randazzo] on the main street have now been stuccoed and painted.
c. transf. and fig.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1824), II. 78. The apartment at the end [of a marmot’s hole] is very warmly stuccoed round with moss and hay.
1776. Anstey, Election Ball (1808), 218. Ye must stucco and whitewash your faces.
1839. Lady Lytton, Cheveley (ed. 2), III. iii. 74. She was a great admirer of what the world stuccoes with the name of ‘talent.’
Hence Stuccoed ppl. a., Stuccoing vbl. sb.
a. 1761. Cawthorn, Taste, 75. Hence all our stucco’d walls, Mosaic floors.
1820. Combe, Syntax, Wife, III. 206. In stucco’d eating room he dines.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 517. Exterior Finishing is the term applied to stuccoing, rough-casting, and plastering.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXIII. 166/2. As an imitation of stone, much wil depend upon the skill and care with which stuccoing is executed.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., ii. 14. Fragments of carving, or pieces of stuccoed tracery, together with broken vases and uprooted shrubs, littered the garden and the terrace.
1884. G. Allen, Philistia, II. 18. The noisy stuccoed modern watering-place.
