Noun : a thatch of unruly red hair. From Dictionary.com.
(iii) People living in thatched houses losing their homes and possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
Gavin was born in Harvie, but left it at such an early age that he could only recall thatched houses with nets drying on the roofs, and a sandy shore in which coarse grass grew. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
Meanwhile, through its Household department, Flux is one of the few to cover unusual risks such as thatched homes and unoccupied properties. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Prof. Masson takes 'thatched' as referring to the texture of the nest or to the corn-stalks or rushes over it. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
Rooms: Room are decorated in an eclectic blend of Balinese and Italian styles, with attractive features such as thatched roofs, handcrafted antiques and terrazzo bathrooms. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Don't fry in the sun] Reference
It is on the west side of the street, and is thatched. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Of the 15 men in this thatched-hut town, 12 are addicts. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Cold Turkey] Reference
Hurrying before her brother, Cora reached the thatched doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
Most of the island's small, thatched mud homes have their on shrine. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
He had his palm-thatched hut not far from the Beecher camp, in a small. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
Within the town, merchants lived in wooden houses thatched with palm leaves. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Island of Lindisfarne, whose walls were of oak, and whose roof was thatched. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The fishermen were just returning home with their catch in little round thatched boats. From Wordnik.com. [Margie Goldsmith: Ten Things I Learned in Vietnam] Reference
At the screich o 'day we came from Glen Chalmadale into the thatched village of Loch Ranza. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
There is no sign of civilization save a few thatched huts that serve as the fighters 'camp. From Wordnik.com. ['It's War Now'] Reference
In a damp corner of a thatched cottage an artist (2) peels Queen Anne's Lace from the paper. From Wordnik.com. [Downland Ballad I :Photo-disintegration] Reference
It has you stomping on peasants and burninating thatched-roof cottages while avoiding getting. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
The villages look bucolic from a distance -- all thatched huts, bright saris and swarms of curious kids. From Wordnik.com. [CHASING BLACK FEVER] Reference
Beyond it again lay the vineyard, and the thatched roof of an old Dutch farmhouse half hidden among trees. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The side walls are covered with plaited reeds, and the roof is thatched with palm leaves securely fastened. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They lived together in a little cottage built of peat and thatched with reeds, on the edge of a great forest. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
The roof itself consists of closely fitted mats of brush thickly thatched with the leaves of wild sugar cane. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The roof is carefully thatched with the leaves of the nipa-palm and these are sewn into a thick mat with ratan. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
We were now close to a white house, stone built and thatched, set among big plane-trees, and looking to the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
(The studio itself is a low-rent fantasyland of villages with thatched huts, colonial mansions and boozy saloons.). From Wordnik.com. [Kim Puts On A Festival] Reference
The nature of the materials tends to cause water to be shed and run off much like a thatched roof protects a cottage. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Throughout the island the houses are much like those of Malay peoples elsewhere, with timber frames and thatched roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Then 13, Thoai fled at the first sight of Korean troops walking up the dirt path toward his parents 'thatched farmhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Apocalypse Then] Reference
On the slopes above Honiara, several thousand Malaitans now live in thatched huts built on old World War II battlefields. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels Of The Pacific] Reference
They found, on reaching the station, which was a very primitive affair with a thatched roof, that the booking-office was closed. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
These were six or seven log-houses, thatched with palmetto-leaves, built on high posts, with a porch in front, facing the water. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The houses are thatched with long grass, which grows over the hills, while below in the valley the rice is cultivated in terraces. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
He pled for a return to nature, to country-side, thatched cottages, ploughed fields, flocks, harvests, vintages and rustic holidays. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
A year after the children were orphaned, the grass-thatched house their father had built in the Rakai district collapsed in a heavy rain. From Wordnik.com. [10 Million Orphans] Reference
It was a mere tumble-down hut, with wattled sides, and a rotten thatched roof, containing two rooms, one small enough to serve as a bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
I have found them in a plantain-thatched hovel on the banks of the Niger, and forgotten while I read them that the thermometer was 110° in the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The rain was drifting heavily on the thatched roof, as it only does in tropical climates, and I was tired to death; but I could not resist his appeal. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Our tepees were made of the cedar, thatched with grey moss and cemented with the gum from the pines, carpeted with the mountain sheep-skins, soft as down. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
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