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Tropical palm leaf fibres used to make mats etc
Answer for the clue "Tropical palm leaf fibres used to make mats etc ", 6 letters:
raffia
Alternative clues for the word raffia
- Palm used for weaving
- Feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
- Teeming (with)
- Palm fiber
- Palm reader initially following lines in, oddly enough, animal
- Craftsperson's fiber
- Basket material
- Fibre used for weaving mats, baskets, etc
- Palm tree fibre
- Type of palm tree
Usage examples of raffia.
Instead, he and his companions camped on the deck, sleeping on raffia mats under a canvas awning that slanted steeply from the rail of the quarterdeck to a cleat by the cargo well.
They sat on rolled raffia mats under the awning, their faces lit by a single candle which flickered in a resin holder.
For weeks I have been feeding my furnace a mixture of coke, slack, wood-shavings, cannel coal and odds and ends of rope and raffia from the floor of my coal bin, and now it is all gone.
And then the ruins of the ancient mortuaries, more extensive than the town, and fields of yams and raffia and yellow peas, and flooded paddies where rice and paeonin were grown.
Spreading her raffia mat by the bed, presently filled with pansies, Alathea knelt, tugged on her cotton gloves, and set to.