adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thatched cottage (= with a roof made from dry straw )
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a row of small thatched cottages
a thatched roof (= made of dried straw )
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She lived in a pretty country cottage with a thatched roof.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cottage
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There is not an abundance of thatched cottages in the wolds, but those that do exist are real gems.
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Turn left when level with thatched cottage on track.
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The road brought them to the centre of the two rows of thatched cottages .
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Elizabeth Manor House, thatched cottages , farm and craft buildings.
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They were the sons of Thomas Jackson, a humble farm labourer who brought up ten children in a thatched cottage .
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I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel.
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There was a row of whitewashed thatched cottages on the right.
roof
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It had a newly thatched roof and was enclosed inside a privet hedge.
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Green grass sprouted from the mouldy, neglected thatched roofs .
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Nobody was hurt but the thatched roof , and a quantity of hay and peat were destroyed.
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The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs .
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Memorable village scenes are created by these traditional building materials, often capped with a thatched roof .
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The thatched roof of the lodge creaked as if mourning over the dreadful secrets of the priory.
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There is also a hut with a thatched roof and beside it a store room of split poles.
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It has a thatched roof over it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a thatched roof
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From Thaxted we went to a lovely old thatched pub called the Ashtree at Burton End.
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In many cases the roofs were thatched , but are now mostly tiled.
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Memorable village scenes are created by these traditional building materials, often capped with a thatched roof.
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Nobody was hurt but the thatched roof, and a quantity of hay and peat were destroyed.
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Shifted ... And was again in the scrub behind the round thatched huts that blazed like torches.
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The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs.
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Turn left when level with thatched cottage on track.