daub
IPA: dˈɔb
noun
- Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
- A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
- A crude or amateurish painting.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
- (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
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Examples of "daub" in Sentences
- He is married to the artist Anne Olsen Daub.
- The huts or houses had wattle and daub walls.
- The earliest type of infill was wattle and daub.
- Jacal construction is similar to wattle and daub.
- The cottages were mostly of wattle and daub with thatched roofs.
- A timber, wattle and daub church was present on the site in 1299.
- Wet clay daub was then smeared onto the wattles, filling in the gaps.
- The building was originally timber framed with wattle and daub infill.
- Anyone recall the Omaha Police Division officers Daub was supported by
- Built of wattle and daub it was dedicated it to Mary the Blessed Virgin.