Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coarse fabric made from the fibers of fig-tree (Ficus Indica) bark.

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Examples

  • I decided to make sheds on the west side, and send over for food, which, thanks to the Providence which watches over us, we found at last in a good supply of maere and some ground-nuts; but through, all this upland region the trees yielding bark-cloth, or nyanda, are so abundant, that the people are all well-clothed with it, and care but little for our cloth.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

  • I decided to make sheds on the west side, and send over for food, which, thanks to the Providence which watches over us, we found at last in a good supply of maëre and some ground-nuts; but through, all this upland region the trees yielding bark-cloth, or _nyanda_, are so abundant, that the people are all well-clothed with it, and care but little for our cloth.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

  • Does most people in SA not have any sense of morality, or loyalty? without that, you are not a human being - just another animal!!!! siphiwe nyanda said last year that there was a conspiracy against siyabonga gama, akin to the conspiracy against jacob zuma. now that gama has been fired, i am wondering if the

    IOL: News 2010

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