wattle and daub

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   building material consisting of interwoven rods and twigs covered with clay

   Broaderbuilding material

Questions about wattle and daub

What does wattle and daub mean?

wattle and daub means "building material consisting of interwoven rods and twigs covered with clay".

Is wattle and daub a common word?

wattle and daub is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.