The roof is made of thatch.
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Thatch
/θæt͡ʃ/
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Swazi women traditionally plait grass to make thatch roofs for their homes.
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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.
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A whole colony of wild birds nestle in the reedy thatch, and find out quiet corners in the cool shadow of that wide veranda.
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