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

Then it was seen that the stick was a mere tube of very thin metal, painted to appear like a Malacca cane.

From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison

A prime Malacca cane is, of course, a natural stem, and it is a nice point to have a slight irregularity in its symmetry as evidence of this.

From Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday

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

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