malo

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The ocean is sometimes poetically termed the malo or pa-á of the naked swimmer, or bather It covers his nakedness Footnote 44: Ka'ika'i.

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  1. In the Fiji Islands, Hawaii, and other parts of Polynesia, the paper-mulberry, Papyrius papyrifera.
  2. A cloth or girdle made from the fiber of the paper-mulberry. See Broussonetia, kapa, tapa, aute, and wauke.

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  • Malo, malo, malo, malo ; it is translated thus Malo , I would rather be Malo , in an apple-tree Malo , than a bad boy Malo , in adversity The fruit was an important item on the Aldington Manor Farm, and when later I bought an adjoining farm of seventy acres with orcharding, and had planted nine acres of plum trees, my total fruit area amounted to about thirty acres. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • Travis could have been writing “veneno malo,” for instance, which in his imperfect Spanish might refer to food poisoning. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Karaoke / ITA / ligabue / Libera nos a malo-Ligabue. kar —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • The fruit comes off the Shed Block in the Summertown vineyard and is hand picked, whole bunch pressed then raised in old French Oak with no malo-lactic fermentation. —  The Wine Front
  • "Todo lo bueno tiene algo malo, y todo lo malo tiene algo bueno" aca un dibujito para mi violadora (?) —  Popular in the last 8 hours
 

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  1. Fijian and Hawaiian, the paper-mulberry, a malo or girdle made from it, Maori maro, a girdle.
 

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