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Daub   /dɔb/   Listen
Daub

noun
1.
Material used to daub walls.
2.
A blemish made by dirt.  Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot.
3.
An unskillful painting.
verb
(past & past part. daubed; pres. part. daubing)
1.
Coat with plaster.  Synonym: plaster.
2.
Apply to a surface.
3.
Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it.  Synonym: smear.  "Daub the ceiling with plaster"



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"Daub" Quotes from Famous Books



... good beer, played batseka (a game of billiards) with the exiles (for Capri has as many as Cairo!) and beat them out of sundry lire, toiled up to the ledge where the playful Tiberius (see guide-books) tipped over his whilom favorites, bought a marine daub; and then back to Naples and the friendly smells. His constant enthusiasm and refreshing observations were a tonic ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... Liberal candidate made no appearance in the constituency. Paul inquired anxiously. No one had seen him. After lunch he drove alone to his father's house. The parlour-maid showed him into the hideously furnished and daub-hung dining-room. The Viennese horrors of plaster stags, gnomes and rabbits stared fatuously on the hearth. No fire was in the grate. Very soon Jane entered, tidy, almost matronly in buxom primness, her hair as faultless ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... love that I value, Lady Tinemouth: you know that I never daub a fair character; Mr. Constantine takes me on your credit; and if you mean Charles Montresor, he is as bad as myself, and dare not for ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... and used by the Romans were never used in Britain after their departure; if the old methods of land-surveying under the agrimensores is not to be traced in Britain as a continuing system; if wattle and daub, rude, uncarpentered trees turned root upwards to form roofs, were the leading principles of house-architecture, it cannot be alleged that the Romans left behind any permanent marks of their economical standard upon the "little disturbed ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... buildings one opposit to the other, joined together on each side with a wall, which makes a square Court-yard in the middle. Round about against the walls of their houses are banks of clay to sit on; which they often daub over with soft Cow-dung, to keep them smooth and clean. Their Slaves and Servants dwell round about without in other houses with ...
— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox


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