Attap

On the outer edge of Cassim's plantation, where the soil was damp, we noticed several long rows of the nepah palm, generally known as attap, and extensively used for thatching houses in the East. ❋ Various (N/A)

Above this is a large wooden bungalow with an attap roof, which is the British ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The houses are all to a certain extent fire-proof — that is, when a fire occurs, and the attap-thatched roofs are burned, the houses below, which are mostly shops, are safe. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

There is a deep veranda under an attap roof of steep slope, and at either end a low bed for a constable, with the usual very hard, circular Malay bolsters, with red silk ends, ornamented with gold and silk embroidery. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

There was no more sleep for us that night, and the next day our roof was again taken to pieces, and we came to the conclusion that the fault was a want of slope enough in the roof for mats, although it would be sufficient for the usual attap thatch. ❋ Unknown (2004)

On one side of the river there is a fishing village of mat and attap hovels on stilts raised a few feet above the slime of a mangrove swamp; and on the other an expanse of slime, with larger houses on stilts, and an attempt at a street of Chinese shops, and a gambling-den, which I entered, and found full of gamblers at noonday. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The cook-house is a small attap shed, in a place cut into the hill, and an inclosure of attap screens with a barrel in it under the house is the bath-room. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

It is not far from the Court House to the prison, a wholesomely situated building on a hill, made of concrete, with an attap roof. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

These wooden bungalows are hot, for the attap roofs have no lining, but they are also airy. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

A substantial flight of stone steps leads from the river to a skeleton jetty with an attap roof, and near it a number of attap-roofed boats were lying, loaded with slabs of tin from the diggings in the interior, to be transhipped to Pinang. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

This was covered for seven feet in the middle by a low, circular roof, thatched with attap. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

We are beyond the little territory of Malacca, but this bit of land was ceded to England after the “Malay disturbances” in 1875, and on it has been placed the Sempang police station, a four-roomed shelter, roofed with attap, a thatch made of the fronds of the nipah palm, supported on high posts — an idea perhaps borrowed from the mangrove — and reached by a ladder. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

They are all conical buildings of wood and attap raised on wooden pillars, and are usually on small knolls a little way from the kampongs. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Within the fort the collector and magistrate — a very inert-looking Dutch half-caste — has a wretched habitation, mostly made of attap. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

He has scarcely left me since, except to go out to sleep on the attap roof. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

We went on to Kamunting, a forlorn town, mainly built of attap, with roads and ditches needing much improvement, and I bargained for some Chinese purses and visited a gambling saloon, the place in which one sees the peculiar expression of the Chinese face at its fullest development. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The house consists of two attap roofed bungalows, united by their upper verandas. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

It is possible that some of the POWs may have gone up to that area to gather the abundant elephant grass to make the attap huts, but at this time it is just speculation. ❋ Unknown (2000)

If the poles and woodwork are initially and periodically treated with creosote, a life of over two years may reasonably be anticipated, but the attap should be renewed yearly. ❋ Unknown (1983)

The shell makes good charcoal; the leaves are scarcely put to any purpose, the nipah or attap being a superior material for thatching. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

[cris] [rex] doop attap ❋ Nigger Sandwich Jiffs (2009)