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Definition of Thatchings

1. thatching [n] - See also: thatching

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thatchings

thars that thataway thatch thatch thatched thatched roof thatcher Thatcherism Thatcherite

thatchers thatches thatchier thatchiest thatching thatchings (current term) thatcht thatchy thatch palm thatch tree

thatness that is that is to say that much thaumatin thaumatolatry thaumatolatry thaumatrope thaumatropy thaumaturge

Literary usage of Thatchings

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1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"The house was encrusted with heavy thatchings, which dropped between the upper windows: the front, upon which the moonbeams directly played, had originally ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The houses were of poles set upright, with thick thatchings of palms, in vards completely filled with fruit trees, and garden beds of spinach, lettuce, ..."

3. The Bookman (1918)
"The thatchings and minute juxtapositions of colour inseparable from some Monets could not have recorded the motionless grey-green world of fading evening ..."

4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1898)
"The chances of rain being so small, waterproof huts were not considered necessary, and the instruments were protected by rush thatchings laid on a framework ..."

5. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"It is less these, however, than the foreground of old-country farms, with their stacks and thatchings and stock, and the central city, smoking from its ..."

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