stuc, stuck
Also 8 stuke.
[a. F. stuc, ad. It. stucco: see stucco n.]
† 1. = stucco 1 a. Obs.
| 1632 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 42 Two of his pictures, the one limned and painted, the other made of stuck. 1702 J. K. New Eng. Dict., Stuke, a kind of morter fit for imagery, made of chalk and marble well pounded together and sifted. 1703 tr. Perrault's Abridgm. Vitruvius i. ii. 16 The Cornishes..ought to be made of pure Stuck of Marble, without any Plaister. Ibid., The Plaistering must be laid, Bed after Bed... The Ancients put six Lays, 3 of Mortar made of Lime, and 3 of Stuck. 1715 Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1721) I. i. xxii. 39 Others will have Compartments [of a ceiling] of Stuc [It. di stucchi] (which is a sort of hard Plaster). 1771 Roland Le Virloys Dict. Archit. III. Vocab. 184 Stuke, stuc. |
| attrib. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 33 b, The..whitest [sort of Plaister of Paris] is used in Stuc Work [It. opere di stucchi] for Figures and Cornishes. Ibid. III. 28 Some finish their work..by adding to..the material;..those that work in wax, stuc or clay, whom we therefore call stuc-masters [It. Maestri di stucco]: others do it only by taking away,..these we call Sculptors. |
2. = stucco n. 1 b.
| 1932 T. Corkhill Conc. Building Encycl. 207 Stuc, plasterwork to imitate stone. 1971 Country Life 14 Oct. 969/1 Its walls are of stuc, by M. Germain, an imitation of dressed Caen stone. |