maile
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of maile
Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1905–10
Example Sentences
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After the hearing, Berry said the lei was made from the maile plant and shipped from Hawaii for Akaka.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2012
A maile twyfold: a double valise; a wallet hanging across the crupper on either side of the horse.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
The prayer to Laka has power; 5The maile of Laka stands to the fore.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
Near at hand, under a mass of ferns, maile and ieie, was the mouth of the cavern.
From Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League by Armstrong, W. N.
Sometimes they consist of the bright yellow ilimu-flowers or brilliant scarlet pomegranate-blossoms strung on a fibre of the banana-stalk—sometimes they are woven of ferns or of a fragrant wild vine called maile.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
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