Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lustrous, loosely woven fabric made from abaca fibers, used especially in making ribbons, baskets, and hats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fabric made by the natives of the Philippine Islands from the fibers of the leafstalks of the abaca (Musa textilis), usually mixed with fibers of silk, cotton, piña, etc.
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- noun
fabric made frombanana plant fibers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Feathered fascinators, huge round sinamay disc styles as worn by Zara Philips, and square silk crowns are proving the most sought after, but 1970s floppiness, straw trilbies and cloches are predicted to be an essential companion to casual summerwear thanks to the influence of Sienna Miller and Kate Moss.
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The jusi, made from the jusi that comes in the thread from China, is colored to suit the fancy of the individual, but is not extensively used by the natives, who usually prefer the abuka, piña, or sinamay, which are products of the abuka tree, or pineapple fibre.
An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Emily Bronson Conger
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As it was not belted down, it crept out and lent a comical suggestion of zouave jacket to the camisa, or waist, of _sinamay_ (a kind of native cloth made of hemp fibres).
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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The men are agricultural laborers; the women, seamstresses, house servants, and wet nurses, and they also do the beautiful embroideries, the hat-plaiting, the weaving of piña, sinamay, and jusi, and the other local industries which are carried on by the upper class.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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Along the coasts of the large inhabited islands the Chinese travelled as traders or middlemen, at great personal risk of attack by individual robbers, bartering the goods of manufacturers for native produce, which chiefly consisted of sinamay cloth, shark-fin, balate (trepang), edible birds'-nests, gold in grain, and siguey-shells, for which there was a demand in Siam for use as money.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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[119] Perhaps Morga alludes to the _sinamay_, which was woven from abaká, or filament of the plant _Musa textilis_.
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Only the old Sage went his way as usual in his dark-striped sinamay camisa buttoned up to the neck, loose shoes, and wide gray felt hat.
The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878
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Princess Beatrice arrived in a bright blue suit, from Angela Kelly, and matching hat, while Princess Eugenie, wore an oyster and brown outfit from the same designer, with a large, sinamay silk angled hat.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Princess Beatrice arrived in a bright blue suit, from Angela Kelly, and matching hat, while Princess Eugenie, wore an oyster and brown outfit from the same designer, with a large, sinamay silk angled hat.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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She sells straw Easter bonnets with flowers and colorful brims, although she said these days, Easter hats are whatever you feel like wearing - whether it's a Western-style hat or one made from delicate, almost translucent, sinamay.
News-Gazette.com e.p. 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word sinamay
"These objects—darkly stained wood-and-aluminium structures with additional elements of fabric, leather, and sinamay (a stiff cloth often used in millinery)—are domestically scaled, their simple armatures recalling ambiguous sections of furniture."
- From a review of a Claire Barclay show in Art in America, December 2010, review by Lee Triming, p 158
May 28, 2011