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Meanings of daub in English

Portuguese
mancha
Catalan
taca
Spanish
manchón

A blemish made by dirt.

      mancha
      Catalan
      enguixar

      Coat with plaster.

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            Usage of daub in English
            1
            The painter squeezed a daub of brilliant red on to her palette.
            Dorian
            2
            The hut was very small and was made of wattle and daub.
            A Boy's Ride
            3
            A cottage built of wattle and daub stood ahead, roofed in straw.
            Assail
            4
            They hardly distinguish the difference between a Correggio and a common daub.
            Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
            5
            It was a green cornhusk wrapped around a daub of sticky honeycomb.
            Rogues
            6
            Next door to where we meet, youths daub the walls with slogans.
            The Irish Times
            7
            I don't daub any more, but I can see, I can paint!
            Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
            8
            They coloured themselves in fearsome style, red being the favourite daub.
            The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
            9
            The old pole and daub house dropped to pieces long ago.
            Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
            10
            There was even a daub on the side of her handsome sensitive nose.
            The Adventures of Kathlyn
            11
            They daub the Raven-in-Flight upon every wall where property is destroyed.
            Jonathan strange and mr norrell
            12
            Any daub will do, provided your hand lays on the colours.
            The Rocks of Valpré
            13
            We sold to the madre a couple of those daub yours.
            Renaissance
            14
            So she fetched a daub of perfect pitch instead from Port.
            The Slow Regard of Silent Things
            15
            She melted a daub of sealing wax onto the top of the bottle.
            The Wise Man’s Fear
            16
            He stared at what seemed a careless daub of paint, then stepped away.
            Martin Eden
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            Translations for daub
            Portuguese
            manchanódoa
            Daub through the time
            Daub across language varieties
            United Kingdom
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