abaca

Example Sentences

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That abacá is used to whip the strands of cables of the ships and boats instead of hemp.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

“I am sure you do not know what abacá is,” laughed Filippa.

From Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines by Petersham, Miska

The almost universal custom is to plant, for temporary shelter, suckers of fruiting bananas, but throughout the Visayas and in Southern Luzon I think abacá could be advantageously substituted.

From Cacao Culture in the Philippines by Lyon, William S. (Scrugham)

Sometimes we mix silk or cotton with the abacá hemp.”

From Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines by Petersham, Miska

Guinara, i.e., stuff made of the abacá, is manufactured, as well as also some piña, or figured silk stuffs, the silk being brought from Manila, and of Chinese origin.

From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin