wattle and daub

noun

Also wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.

a form of wall construction consisting of upright posts or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches and plastered with a mixture of clay and straw.

Origin of wattle and daub

First recorded in 1800–10

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Historical Examples of wattle and daub

In the early period there were wood and wattle-and-daub houses.
The Towns of Roman Britain
James Oliver Bevan
Beyond it there lay amid the trees the wattle-and-daub hut of a laborer, the door open, and the single room exposed to the view.
The White Company
Arthur Conan Doyle
The original little "wattle-and-daub" cottage, with its windows half hidden under creepers, was gone.
Our Little Boer Cousin
Luna May Innes
The end walls were closed with wooden studs and wattle-and-daub filling.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7
Various
In the round hut, which was made with branches and wattle-and-daub, stick nests were united to the plaster work of rock martins.
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
Hallam Hawksworth

British Dictionary definitions for wattle and daub

wattle and daub

noun

a form of wall construction consisting of interwoven twigs plastered with a mixture of clay, lime, water, and sometimes dung and chopped straw
(as modifier)a wattle-and-daub hut

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