ratan
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The wide, low verandas are shaded on the sunny side by screens or blinds of ratan painted green, and from the ceiling dangle baskets, large baskets, filled with every imaginable variety of fern.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
At length the last class had been heard, and the last lesson recited, and Lugare seated himself behind his desk on the platform, with his longest and stoutest ratan before him.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
Tying up the legs of our prize with the ratan, we passed a piece of bamboo through them, and took our way by the path we had cut to the beach.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
It is covered first with bass and then with sacking, made of Indian grass tied around with ratan.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
We soon cut down some of the larger bamboos, with ratan to secure the cross pieces, and had an amply buoyant raft to carry one person out into the centre.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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