talipot

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Noun

talipot (plural talipots)

  1. A tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves and flowers
    • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al., p. 304,
      On Sunday, Oct. 12. being stored with all things needful for their Journey, viz. Ten Days Provision, a Basin to boil their Provision in, two Calabashes to fetch Water in, and two great Tallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Sweet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for Shoes, to keep their Feet from Thorns, because to them they chiefly trusted.

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