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thatched

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thatch  (thch)
n.
1. Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm fronds, used for roofing.
2. Something, such as a thick growth of hair on the head, that resembles thatch.
3. Dead turf, as on a lawn.
tr.v. thatched, thatch·ing, thatch·es
To cover with or as if with thatch.

[Middle English thacche, alteration (influenced by thecchen, thacchen, to thatch, from Old English theccan, to cover) of thak, from Old English thæc; see (s)teg- in Indo-European roots.]

thatcher n.
thatchy adj.
Translations

thatched [θætʃt] adj [roof] → de paja;
thatched cottage → casita con tejado de paja
thatched [θætʃt] adj [roof] → de chaume;
thatched cottage → chaumière f
thatched [θætʃt] adjstrohgedeckt
thatched [θætʃt] adj [roof] → di paglia;
thatched cottage → cottage m inv col tetto di paglia

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At intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and about it small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of cultivation.
The horses also had been fed for a fortnight on straw from the thatched roofs and had become terribly thin, though still covered with tufts of felty winter hair.
He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree; and he had a little squirrel wife called Goody.
 
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