A strip of betel leaf is wrapped round the penis, so that it projects beyond the glans, and is snipped instead of the prepuce.
Next her cousin ties a kerchief round the groom's forehead, and sticks a betel leaf in it.
On the next morning the bride is made to sit opposite the bridegroom, with a winnowing fan between them filled with betel leaf, etc.
With the breaking of a cocoanut, and the offering of some powdered rice, betel leaf, areca nut, etc.
They are also given a small amount of money, rice, betel leaf, etc.
In like manner, when a marriage is contemplated among the Idaiyans, the parents of the prospective bride and bridegroom go to the temple, and throw before the idol a red and white flower, each wrapped in a betel leaf.
She is bathed and decorated, and sits on a plank while a vessel of water, coloured rice, and a measure filled with paddy with a style bearing a betel leaf struck on it, are waved before her.
A woman, conducting the girl round the plank, pours water from a vessel on to a betel leaf held in her hand, so that it falls on the ground at the four cardinal points of the compass, which the girl salutes.
When a marriage is contemplated among the Idaiyans (Tamil shepherds) of Coimbatore, the parents of the prospective bride and bridegroom go to the temple, and throw before the idol a red and white flower, each wrapped in a betel leaf.
Then a number of pieces of betel leaf are set out on a shield, so that each soul or spirit has his portion of betel leaf, his little slice of betel nut, and his bit of lime.
Should one of the betel-nut slices become separated from its betel leaf, the omen is considered unpropitious and is followed immediately by the prophylactic rite--the fowl-waving ceremony.
One slice is laid upon a piece of betel leaf, and a little lime is shaken upon it from the lime tube.
By day and by night, in the house and on the trail, in health and in sickness, he turns for stimulation to the quid of betel nut, betel leaf, and lime.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betel leaf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
