Thatch

The roof is made of thatch.

Swazi women traditionally plait grass to make thatch roofs for their homes.

Nevertheless, timber, with lath and plaster, and thatch for the roofs, constituted the chief materials in the dwellings of the English from an early period till near the close of the fourteenth century and beginning of the fifteenth, when bricks began to be used in the better sort of houses.

A whole colony of wild birds nestle in the reedy thatch, and find out quiet corners in the cool shadow of that wide veranda.

He had a thatch of white hair and a red, wrinkled face with blue eyes and a scowl.

Just over halfway up, we reached the Human settlement with its houses of stone and wood and thatch. This was a prewar place.

Mark Ladd, the venue’s assistant director of operations, notes that the fake greenery looks authentic: the height and colour of the blades are varied, with a few brown ones thrown in to emulate dead thatch.

An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.