(n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.
Example Sentences:
(1) On a recent Tuesday morning, as schoolchildren careered through the villa's sun-splashed corridors, one girl quietly contemplated a photograph of a swashbuckling pirate wearing a raffia tricorne .
(2) He was weighed down with baggage: a white plastic bag, a raffia shopping basket and a knapsack, all of which appeared to be full.
(3) The pristine white clapboard house, situated near the top of the hill on a secluded cul-de-sac, has raffia wallpaper and overstuffed leather couches.
(4) The pair of Prada shoes I like most is raffia with a sugar pink heel.
(5) The authors, analysing their casuistry of 56 cases of perforated peptic ulcer, treated with simple raffia, think this surgical act, although simple, has its own therapeutical meaning in conditions of emergency such as a peritonitic abdomen.