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n. (banana leaf English)
Usage examples of "banana leaves".
They had put the coffin in an oxcart over which they built a canopy of banana leaves, but the pressure of the rain was so intense and the streets so muddy that with every step the wheels got stuck and the covering was on the verge of falling apart.
He told her what had happened as she dressed his wounds with a poultice of herbs and banana leaves.
Toward morning they reached a secluded valley, where as soon as light came they dug a shallow grave and filled its bottom with porous rocks, upon which they placed banana leaves and ti.
Snow in paradise, pelting the frozen banana leaves, drifting past the high thick stems of bamboo.
Then off he went down the shadowy alley, pushing the young banana leaves out of his path, his steps growing ever faster, until he was gone altogether, vanished on his own path in the familiar and unchanging night.
I stood out on the upper gallery of the house, shielded somewhat by the banana leaves that stroked the wooden banisters.
A crystalline waterfall cascaded over lifelike rocks and banana leaves and crimson halacoya shaded the “.
Blades of sunlight fell through the notched banana leaves and striped his lined face.
The outskirts of Vientiane were marked by fly-bitten wooden stalls interspersed between banana leaves, lit by fluorescent lights and selling cheap dry goods, as well as other stalls with old tables and grills that offered barbecued chicken.
He stopped next to the spot where a black-eyed girl who couldn't have been more than twelve was selling custard-like sweets wrapped in banana leaves.
Many of the Kikembu from Nyarati had brought banana leaves to the ceremony, and the old Wanderobo had already arranged the leaves into a pallet upon which Joshua could rest without fear of exacerbating his wounds.
His penis would not stick to the banana leaves as to linen or other sorts of bedding, and the wounds would therefore heal more readily.