Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pebble-dashing.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of pebbledash.

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Examples

  • The waiting game began at Rhos community centre, a pebble-dash building next to the village football field and playground.

    Welsh mine flood: families gather in Rhos as rescue effort continues 2011

  • The houses are unadorned and utilitarian, their exterior walls rendered in pebble-dash in grim shades of grey or brown.

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • But sunshine can turn pebble-dash render honey-gold and make geraniums in a window box as bright as stained glass.

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • It came to rest next to a low white pebble-dash chalet I hadn't noticed during our approach.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Number 25 is a flat-faced, end-of-terrace house with a pebble-dash front and freshly painted green windows.

    The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997

  • He stood with his back to the pebble-dash wall to one side of the door while Crilly rang the bell.

    Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

  • The sides were given a pebble-dash surface, while the roof was finished with a steel trowel to give a smooth surface that will shed water readily, Fig. 13.

    Bird Houses Boys Can Build Albert Frederick Siepert

  • Sevilla's hotel in Barcelona, recording well into the small hours on a Friday night-Saturday morning as Romaric and Zokora sneaked out to paint the town red and pebble-dash the pavements creamy-orange.

    The Guardian World News Sid Lowe 2010

  • On the doorstep of a neat, pebble-dash house on Dagenham's First Avenue, Phil Waker, pudgy, good-natured local Labour councillor, is getting an earful.

    New Statesman 2009

  • On Baberton Crescent, lying on the road outside his pebble-dash semi, Walter Robertson, 72, is scrubbing the alloys of his black Ford Focus.

    unknown title 2009

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