jipijapa

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As the little cavalcade proceeded, the Indian guide, who wore a peaked plaited straw hat called jipijapa, a pair of white cotton pantaloons, and a heavy-bladed knife -- a machete -- hanging at his waist, with his machete occasionally slashed off a cane, to suck.

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  1. noun A stemless palmlike plant (Carludovica palmata) of Central and South America, having long-stalked, fanlike leaves that are used to make Panama hats.

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  • As the little cavalcade proceeded, the Indian guide, who wore a peaked plaited straw hat called jipijapa, a pair of white cotton pantaloons, and a heavy-bladed knife -- a machete -- hanging at his waist, with his machete occasionally slashed off a cane, to suck. —  Gold Seekers of '49
  • Everybody put on his gala dress; all the jewels came out of their coffers; the fops and sporting men wore rows of diamond buttons on their shirt fronts, heavy gold chains, and white jipijapa hats, as the Indians call Panamas. —  An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
  • And here comes Captain Tiago, dressed like the sporting man, in a canton flannel shirt, woollen trousers, and a jipijapa hat. —  An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
 

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  1. American Spanish, after Jipijapa, a city of western Ecuador.

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  1. Yunca Indian, in Ecuador; the name of a town in Ecuador.
 

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/həpəˈhɑpɑ/
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