What is "rattan"

Usage examples of "rattan".

The furniture mixed Stickley antiques and heavy rattan with an entertainment center that would make any audiophile or movie addict weep with envy.

Like so many works of man in Boca Grande the Jockey Club is less than it seems: an aluminum-sided bungalow with rattan card tables and a menu written in French but translated in the kitchen into ambiguous gumbos based mainly on plantains and rice.

They wore the usual simple gray breechclout of the slave, but they each had an emerald green waistbelt, from which dangled the slim rattan cane.

The larger office, the one Brody and I shared, had a bolder, richer feel--wicker accessories on rattan desks with glass tops and rattan coffee tables, beside rattan chairs with fat cushions.

Lord of Deep Fields himself was enthroned on a high-backed seat of aged rattan, a complex bit of basket-making that had been the throne of the ruler of a Polynesian island site until she had the lack of insight to believe that her piraguas and canoes could successfully challenge the British sailing vessels brought in by a neighboring site.

The gaps between the saplings were filled with rattan cane split into switches, and overlapping leaves, bunches of rushes, bark.

So I had cushioned the rattan in a warm brown and gray plaid that went with the dark wood of the cabinets and the black of the iron pots hanging in a bunch over the stovetop island.

The furniture was Spanish rustic and rattan, an easy chair with a laurel pattern, stand-up ashtrays, scrapes on the sofa, bookcases, Santiago pottery on the mantelpiece.

A rattan cracked across a man's shoulders, and from forward came the call, "Anchor's aweigh!

In the foreground, brown corticene on the floor, a couple of small tables with writing materials, seven or eight rattan and canvas chairs and that was it.

The deafmute Cecil had vanished, taking with him his shotloaded length of rattan.

And she is with him now, next to the wake-up clock on the rattan table at his bedside in Bethania, watching with her vanished Irish smile as he drags off his sweat-drenched prison uniform and creeps into bed for a share of Louisa's blameless sleep.

He might perhaps ship before the mast, and with his clumsiness and abstraction he would be the victim of the cat, of the boatswain's rattan.

There were some brightly coloured straw mats on the floor, most of which was given over to low-slung comfortable looking rattan chairs and settees, each with a low table beside it.

Under the high thatched roof was a peacock throne woven from rattan, plus three similar but smaller seats.