rattan

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rat·tan /rəˈtæn/ noun [uncountable]  HBPDHFthe plant used to make wicker furniture 藤 rattan chairs 藤椅

Examples from the Corpus

rattan• She found Colin asleep on a rattan lounger on the veranda of his cottage in Holetown.• Mixed in with the velvet are some blackish rattan pieces with beige cushions and severe Scandinavian lines, circa 1960.• I threw the decayed rattan overboard.• All we had accomplished was to stop the bamboo floating away after the last of its rattan lashings had snapped.• The menace was the lashing rattan.• Nothing quite beats the simplicity and elegance of rattan.• But sometimes they used lashings of rattan, a jungle plant which threw out long tendrils that made natural bindings.• Should I have specified round rattan throughout the raft?Origin rattan (1600-1700) Malay rotan

rat·tan nounChineseSyllable  

plant wicker make Corpus the furniture to used

rattan
rat‧tan /rəˈtæn/ noun [uncountable]the plant used to make wicker furniture:
    rattan chairs

rat·tanBrE /ræˈtæn/ 🔊NAmE /ræˈtæn/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a SE Asian climbing plant with long thin strong stems used especially for making furniture 藤（东南亚蔓生植物，茎干多用于做家具）◆a rattan chair藤椅