Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of ring-money such as was until recent times used for barter on the Guinea coast of Africa.
- noun In the game of solo, the seven of trumps, the highest card but one.
- noun See
manila .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
manila ,manila hemp ,manila paper . - adjective Same as
manila . - noun A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.
- noun A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
penannular armlet , mostly inbronze ,copper or gold, which served as a form of money orbarter coinage amongst certain West African peoples.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why should he not play dummy manilla, which is a silent game.
The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel 1925
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Several kinds of the plantain tribe are cultivated for this purpose exclusively, the best known among them being the so-called manilla hemp, a plant largely grown in the Philippine Islands.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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-- This furnishes the fiber known as manilla hemp, and is cultivated in the Philippine Islands for this product.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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January 5, 2007 at 12: 23 am dell sucks ass. 5 hrs of phone hell to talk to some witch in manilla. cluelss as the tech guy they sent out to replace the keyboard who used no shit a screwdriver to pry off the top and damaged the whole laptop. the monkey in the us was as dumb as the bitch overseas. buy a mac.
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I love Post-It notes of every kind -- the giant poster-sized ones you can put on the wall, the classic yellow square one, the jazzy neon upstarts, the little inch-high ones, the brilliant tab-sized ones you can put on manilla folders.
Jennie Nash: The Making of a Novel: Do You Scribble in the Margins? Jennie Nash 2010
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I love Post-It notes of every kind -- the giant poster-sized ones you can put on the wall, the classic yellow square one, the jazzy neon upstarts, the little inch-high ones, the brilliant tab-sized ones you can put on manilla folders.
Jennie Nash: The Making of a Novel: Do You Scribble in the Margins? Jennie Nash 2010
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When I got there they had the bedroom door tied shut with a 1 manilla rope.
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John then reached into his coat again and patted a thick manilla envelope that was pressed against his chest.
The Swindler Erin Zulkoski 2012
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When I got there they had the bedroom door tied shut with a 1 manilla rope.
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Manilla ( manilla.com ) replaces that inbox (or shoebox) that's overflowing with bills, frequent flyer updates, magazine subscription renewals and other boring-but-important pieces of information.
Dashboard Your Life Sean Captain 2011
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