Daubed
[dɔ:bd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Daub
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Examples
- Quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a well-daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her in mid-air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In more recent times the design was cut in relief on hard wood, the relief being then daubed with coloring matter and applied by hand to successive portions of the cloth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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