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Definition of 'rattan'

English

(rfi) (wikipedia) (Calamus)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus .
  • (lb) The plant used as a material.
  • A cane made from this material.
  • *1906 , Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
  • *:He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
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  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan . ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • *2008 , Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization
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