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THATCHED ROOF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thatched roof mean? 

THATCHED ROOF (noun)
  The noun THATCHED ROOF has 1 sense:

1. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)play

  Familiarity information: THATCHED ROOF used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THATCHED ROOF (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A house roof made with a plant material (as straw)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

thatch; thatched roof

Hypernyms ("thatched roof" is a kind of...):

roof (a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building)


 Context examples 


A brown forest stream swirled down the centre of this clearing, with a rude bridge flung across it, and on the other side was a second field sloping up to a long, low-lying wooden house, with thatched roof and open squares for windows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I propped my eyelids open with my two forefingers, and looked perseveringly at her as she sat at work; at the little bit of wax-candle she kept for her thread—how old it looked, being so wrinkled in all directions!—at the little house with a thatched roof, where the yard-measure lived; at her work-box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul's Cathedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass thimble on her finger; at herself, whom I thought lovely.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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