Wattle

Nowadays, few ordinary city dwellers ever use the word "wattle".

And there the heathen Prince, Arviragus, / Gave him an isle of marsh whereon to build; / And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore, […]

The buttons below his waddle open to reveal a ruddy V, tidemark of the sun.

The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.