pebble dash

noun

A coating of small pebbles sprayed onto soft plaster or cement, used as decoration on exterior walls.

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Meanings

nounpebble dash (countable and uncountable, plural pebble dashes)

plural pebble dashes · alternative pebbledash · alternative pebble-dash

  1. countableuncountableA coating of small pebbles sprayed onto soft plaster or cement, used as decoration on exterior walls.
  2. countableslanguncountableDiarrhea
verbpebble dash (third-person singular simple present pebble dashes, present participle pebble dashing, simple past and past participle pebble dashed)

present singular third person pebble dashes · participle present pebble dashing · participle past pebble dashed · past pebble dashed · alternative pebbledash · alternative pebble-dash

  1. To apply pebble dash to a wall.

    The roads were lined with cramped little semis and 1960s bungalows: Britain's cheapest houses, in their flimsy, pebble-dashed glory.

    2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 150

Translations

German Kieselrauputz
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Cite this entry
APA

pebble dash. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pebble%20dash

MLA

“pebble dash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pebble%20dash. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pebble dash,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pebble%20dash.

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