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Example sentences for "palm leaf"

  • Each of them had a collection of panchangams, or calendars for determining auspicious dates, and a bundle of palm leaf strips (ulla mudyan) inscribed with slokas for astrological purposes.

  • Sometimes affliction is supposed to be brought about by the enmity of those who have got incantations written on a palm leaf, and buried in the ground near a house by the side of a well.

  • Some, for example, wear rolls of palm leaf, with incantations written on them, round their necks.

  • He then takes a tender cocoanut, flower of the areca palm, and some powdered rice, which he covers over with a palm leaf.

  • These women are therefore always attended by a Nayar woman in their outdoor movements, and they go sheltering their faces from public gaze with a cadjan (palm leaf) umbrella.

  • The yantram is sometimes written on cadjan (palm leaf), or paper.

  • A Brahman purohit then writes the names of the contracting parties, and the date of their marriage, on two pieces of palm leaf or paper, which he hands over to their fathers.

  • Just before sundown, as we rested after our toil, we perceived a small company of men advancing towards us from the direction of Loo, one of whom bore a palm leaf in his hand for a sign that he came as a herald.

  • He carries a small cadjan (palm leaf) umbrella which he has made himself, adorned all round the edges with a fringe of the young leaves of the cocoanut palm.

  • In return, he had to supply cadjan (palm leaf) umbrellas used at the daily procession, and bamboo baskets required for washing the rice offered to the idol.

  • He makes a plate of gold or silver, or of palm leaf, according to his means, and ties it on his forehead with Sanskrit verses inscribed on it.

  • The doors were closed by chicks of palm leaf, which in the daytime were propped out to shade the interior from the sun.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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