"thatch" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to plants used to cover roofs and walls, especially in rural areas. For example: "The thatch on the side of the house was starting to erode from the rain."
They were given a second chance to transfer full-time to the Blackfriars in 1613, when the Globe burned to the ground, its thatch accidentally set alight by a cannon during a performance of Henry VIII.
On the coast, farmers live in houses on stilts, walled with flattened bamboo and roofed with thatch.
Houses varied considerably in size and shape, although virtually all had palm-thatched roofs and walls of thatch or adobe.
In the Sierra, traditional housing of wattle and daub, thatch, or rammed earthen walls, with thatched roofs, has been giving way to Spanish tile or corrugated metal roofs and cement block or brick walls.
He keeps brushing away the thatch of brown hair that flops over his eyes.
Appearance: All woman with a thatch of white hair, glasses and rosy cheeks – a little like Margaret Mountford from The Apprentice minus the sexy eyes.
Most of Phulwari's mud-and-thatch dwellings are untouched.
On one side, in crude mud-and-thatch houses, live the local smallholders.
When Mr Branfman visited the plain at last in 1993 (pictured), droplets from cluster bombs were still exploding.The thatch-and-timber houses burned like candles, the villagers told him.
Others were incinerated in their thatch-roofed houses.
It lives in sal forest or on alluvial plains among the tall thatch-grass, increasingly chased out of both by human beings and their fires.
