malacca

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  1. A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.

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  1. a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm
  2. stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles

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  • Glass jars of gula malacca, the delicious toffee-sugar of the Orient. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • The stick was a heavy malacca, with a thick crutch-handle of polished ivory, suitable for sustaining the feeble steps of old age. —  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy L Sayers
  • People can say what they like because they CAN. if jebat was chinese, then everybody in malacca is chinese and Parameswara actually from guangzhou. ha ha .. who the hell comes with that racist idea. —  WordPress.com News
  • I particularly remarked the jumbo malacca, from India, and the longona (_Euphoria Longona_), a dark kind of lechee from China. —  Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • He, on the other hand, was leaning forward, with both hands on the knob of his malacca, his eyes bent on the floor and his mouth squared to the surliest expression. —  The Delectable Duchy
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