wattle and daub

American  

noun

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

2. 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.

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wattle and daub British  

noun

1. 1. a form of wall construction consisting of interwoven twigs plastered with a mixture of clay, lime, water, and sometimes dung and chopped straw

   2. ( as modifier )

      a wattle-and-daub hut

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Etymology

Origin of wattle and daub

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy.

From Literature

A computer that old may as well be made of wattle and daub.

From Washington Post

The house … had an earth floor and its end walls may have been finished with wattle and daub.

From Nature

Once used in masonry as wattle and daub, where panels of woven branches were daubed with mud or dung, wattle work is still useful to a gardener setting out to build a fence.

From Washington Post

Every house was roofed with thatch, and had walls of wattle and daub.

From Literature