Meanings of wattle and daub in English

The hut was very small and was made of wattle and daub.

A cottage built of wattle and daub stood ahead, roofed in straw.

There are about thirty European houses; the rest are native, and of wattle and daub.

They are built of wattle and daub, and surrounded by plantations of manioc, maize, etc.

The buildings were wattle and daub on sturdy timber frames, set out in neat rectilinear rows.

The Church was very small wattle and daub.

Then the old man stopped abruptly at a wattle and daub hut, no different from any other.

The hut was built on a gentle rise and constructed of wattle and daub, shaped like a squat vase.

There are about thirty European houses; the rest of the buildings, inhabited by the natives, are of wattle and daub.

Dim light shimmered on wet cobblestone rather than packed earth, on stone dwellings instead of wattle and daub or timber buildings.

Though the dwellings of the native inhabitants are composed merely of wattle and daub, from the sea they present an imposing appearance.

The dwellings, of which no walls remain, were evidently built of timber, the crevices between the wood being filled with wattle and daub.

The outer and inner walls were all made of that stuff known as wattle and daub-sort of earth-likeplaster worked into and around hurdles.

There was a ruinous " wattle and daub" edifice which had been deserted by a Dutch Boer before the arrival of the settlers.

During these early years-whenthe settlers were having such a difficult time staying alive-mudwalls, wattle and daub, and coarse marshgrass thatch were used.

The palace of the governor and government offices are commodious structures, but nearly all the houses of the native inhabitants are of wattle and daub.