I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wattle and daub (= this frame covered with clay )
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walls made of wattle and daub
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anti-government slogans were daubed on the roads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A blue line had been daubed across his forehead and round his short white hair.
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He daubed more polish on to a dark splatter on the toe.
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Her dark dress has a creamy collar and cuffs, daubed with salmon trim.
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Her face was always carefully rouged, her mouth daubed generously with salve.
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Since then, he claims, he's been repeatedly threatened, and now his garden shed has been daubed with graffiti.
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The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans.
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While a police constable was in the living room, the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth.
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White memory, daubed, smeared ... The land remembers.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I don't take to these modernistic people who just splash on daubs of paint.
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The consistency of the mud and straw daub for the walls was arrived at through experiment.
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The mystery was the origin of the large quantities of daub .
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The third alternative, and the most straight forward interpretation, was that the daub was contemporary with the backfilling of the drain.
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This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods.
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Three pieces of daub were dated and provided an average age and standard error of 830 plus/minus 40 years.