bast

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They encamped in villages of beehive-shaped huts covered with bamboos and bast, and surrounded by mud walls.

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  1. noun See phloem.
  2. noun Bast fiber.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English bæst.

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  1. Also corruptly bass, q. v.; from Middle English bast, from Anglo-Saxon bæst = D. Middle High German G. bast (masculine) = Icelandic Swedish bast (neuter) = Danish bast; origin uncertain; perhaps connected with besom, q. v.
  2. Early modern English, from Middle English bast, baste, from Old French bast, modern F. bât (cf. bat, bat-horse, etc.) = Provencal bast = Spanish Italian basto, from Middle Latin bastum, a pack-saddle (see bastard), prob. from Middle High German bast = English bast, bass. Cf. bass, a cushion.
 

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