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Daub meaning
Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc. | A crude or amateurish painting.
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People also buy themselves new clothes for the festival, daub the front of their houses with colourful designs and use coconuts as decorations.
This was a pink encrusting coralline alga known as paint weed, no doubt because it does indeed resemble a daub of paint.
Today’s increasingly mental woke tropes, rap music, reality shows and plain, ugly architecture, for example, will be laughed at or looked upon with horror, the same as we do today with witch trials, Mao’s Cultural Revolution and, er, wattle-and-daub huts.
Naz provides terrific instruction for a white gravy to daub on the steak, but I follow the instruction of the great Texan cook Lisa Fain and serve instead.
In light of his exceptional undertakings, Mr. Daub was the recipient of the Hope is Help Award from the Autism Action Partnership and the Humanitarian Award from The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Nebraska, among other accolades.
After killing her he used blood from her cracked skull to daub "a sign of the devil" on a door, said Alexandra Dedova, 21, a witness to the crime scene and Luchin’s initial police interrogation.
Osinbajo, who is in Benue on a two-day working visit, stated this on Tuesday while inspecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps at Abagena, Daub in Makurdi and Guma Local Government Councils of the state.
The oak staves (wattle) and clay infill (daub), lie over the beams providing superior insulation for the house, but they were built 100 years later.
Within the drip gullies were the remains of daub, the common material used at the time for cladding wooden framed walls.
The posts and beams divided the walls into regular compartments which could be left as openings, or filled with sun dried bricks, lathes or straw and covered with clay daub or plaster.
The space between the posts was filled in with wattle and daub, or occasionally, planks.
The wattle and daub also shows evidence of partial burning.
Today, they live in unpretentious huts of wattle, daub and thatch.
When the bonfire had died down, people would daub themselves with its ashes and sprinkle it over their crops and livestock.