Malacca cane

American  

noun

1. a cane or walking stick made of the brown, often mottled or clouded stem of an East Indian rattan palm, Calamus scipionum.

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Etymology

Origin of Malacca cane

First recorded in 1835–45

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Malacca cane

Ray says John F Kennedy liked a Malacca cane handle with a gold collar on his brolly when he was US president.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2014

Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon the table, close to where Louis was standing, was a thick Malacca cane which I recognized at once.

From The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

He will see the choleric East-India uncle, with a red face, and a Malacca cane held by the middle, stumping about, and bullying his nephew,—"a young rascal,"—or his niece,—"you baggage, you."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

What new strength to meet life's troubles, what electric expansion of soul, come to the initiated upon the feel of the vertebra of his Malacca cane!

From Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday