Obs. Also 8 stuke. [a. F. stuc, ad. It. stucco: see STUCCO sb.] = STUCCO 1 a.
1632. J. Hayward, trans. 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. trans. 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.
