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Definition of "wattle-and-daub" []

  • Alternative spelling of wattle and daub. (noun)

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Use "wattle-and-daub" in a sentence
  • "The gradual growth also explains the irregular plan and clashing patterns of the framework, and the Renaissance touches that appear here and there, in the carvings and the fireplaces.01260 272018"Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall", as the saying used to go, and for a nation more used to wattle-and-daub huts, the huge windows of Hardwick must have seemed like an exotic fantasy."
  • "They had tall, pointy, gabled roofs which, along with their wattle-and-daub walls, were carefully plastered and beautifully painted in bright colors."
  • "Wood construction = wattle-and-daub, heavy timber, mill construction, balloon frame, western-frame, stick-building is probably the most effectively durable means of construction known to man."