Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rough-faced, as taken from the quarry: noting a type of building-stone and masonry built of such stone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Stone Masonry) Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
face left as it comes from thequarry and notsmoothed with thechisel orpoint .
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Examples
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La Crosse architect Michael Swinghamer took Mr. Stroik's exterior concept in a rustic direction, cladding the church mainly in quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone.
A Return to Grace Catesby Leigh 2010
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La Crosse architect Michael Swinghamer took Mr. Stroik's exterior concept in a rustic direction, cladding the church mainly in quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone.
A Return to Grace Catesby Leigh 2010
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La Crosse architect Michael Swinghamer took Mr. Stroik's exterior concept in a rustic direction, cladding the church mainly in quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone.
A Return to Grace Catesby Leigh 2010
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It has a rustic exterior made of quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone with limestone detail.
Holy Architecture 2010
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It has a rustic exterior made of quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone with limestone detail.
Holy Architecture 2010
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It has a rustic exterior made of quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone with limestone detail.
Holy Architecture 2010
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La Crosse architect Michael Swinghamer took Mr. Stroik's exterior concept in a rustic direction, cladding the church mainly in quarry-faced Wisconsin fieldstone.
A Return to Grace Catesby Leigh 2010
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Pitti Palace, and in this work left to posterity a model method of the use of quarry-faced stone blocks for the first story.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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