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Malacca

noun

Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.

A cane made from the stem of a rattan palm. Synonym: malacca cane.

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"Malacca" Quotes from Famous Books

... or Talaing, Khmer, Suk, Stieng, Bahnar, Annam, Khamen-Boram, Xong, Samre, Khmu, Lemet, Palaung, and Wa. There is some correspondence, although perhaps to a lesser degree, between Khasi and the Ho-Munda languages and those of Malacca and the Nancowry language of ...

— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon

... doorway, holding a silver-banded malacca walking-stick that he had taken from the hall-stand. He was grasping it in his left hand, below the band, with the crook out, holding it at his side as though it were a sword in a scabbard, which was ...

— Dearest • Henry Beam Piper

Words linked to "Malacca" : rattan, malacca cane, cane, Calamus rotang, rattan palm