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单词 pebble-dash
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Definition of pebble-dash in English:

pebble-dash

noun
mass nounBritish
  • Mortar with pebbles in it, used as a coating for external walls.

    〈主英〉小卵石灰浆

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the other hand, the rest of the family moved east and ended up in Basildon, a rather unfortunate sprawl of pre-fab concrete and pebble-dash on the Thames Estuary.

Derivatives

  • pebble-dashed

  • adjective
    British
    • A pebble-dashed cove can feel like your own private hideaway from the world.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Built in 1998, the single-storey pebble-dashed house is presented in very good decorative order.
      • When we got it, it was pebble-dashed all over in a sort of garish yellow colour.
      • In the lane next to the field stood a row of generously proportioned, pebble-dashed council houses with long back gardens put up in the 1920s.
      • The curtains were drawn on the downstairs windows of the red and yellow pebble-dashed house, which is beside a row of council houses, at the end of Union Street.

Definition of pebble-dash in US English:

pebble-dash

nounˈpebəl ˌdaSHˈpɛbəl ˌdæʃ
British
  • Mortar with pebbles in it, used as a coating for exterior walls.

    〈主英〉小卵石灰浆

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the other hand, the rest of the family moved east and ended up in Basildon, a rather unfortunate sprawl of pre-fab concrete and pebble-dash on the Thames Estuary.
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