daub
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8.6
- noun
- /dɔb/
:
revoque
- The old house had walls made of daub, which helped keep it warm during the winter.
- wattle and daub
Examples
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There was lots of burned clay—the daub from the wattle-and-daub structure—baked very hard in tremendous quantities.
Academic text (2006) -
The store was strewn with pieces of burned ceramics and bright orange daub from the walls—evidence of an intense fire.
Academic text (2010) -
On a colonial farm site like this one, the most likely source for both daub and clay would be a wooden chimney.
Blog text (11) -
Photographs #8 and #9 show different aspects of the same collection of daub and wattle huts that pass for a village in these parts.
Fiction book (1997) -
There were not many artifacts in the daub-filled pit, but one of the things we did find was this porringer.
Blog text (11) -
The middle section of the house was a wattle and daub (Shakespearean era) building.
Blog text (16) -
Wooden chimneys were always lined with clay, which the heat in the flue eventually turned to daub.
Blog text (11) -
The walls were made of a sophisticated type of wattle-and-daub covered with high-quality plaster painted with a red and black strip along the base.
Academic text (2010) -
They build typical Masikoro wooden or wattle-and-daub single-room houses.
Academic text (1991) -
Most Gauls lived in small rural communities in rectangular houses of timber, wattle, daub, and clay, well insulated for cold winters.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Daub as the building material also comes from the idea of 'smear' — builders would daub sticky mud and straw between wooden beams, which is why 'wattle and daub' names that simple wall method.