Manilaadj.n.

Brit.

/məˈnɪlə/, U.S.

/məˈnɪlə/

Forms: 1600s– Manila, 1700s– Manilla. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Manila.

Etymology: < Manila (usually spelt Manilla in English in the 19th cent.), the name of the capital of the Philippines. Compare French Manille, noun (1846 denoting a cigar, 1873 denoting a straw hat, 1878 denoting a rope made from Manila hemp).

A. adj.

1. Designating any of various goods or commodities produced in or associated with Manila or the Philippines, as Manila cheroot, Manila cigar, Manila grass, Manila tobacco, Manila wood.

ΚΠ

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 304 The Frier sent us aboard..50l. of Manila Tobacco.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 158 The celebrated Manila Wood, with which they build their Apaculpa [sic] Ships.

1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship III. xxxii. 73 On the evening of the third day, as they were smoking their Manilla cheroots.

1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 606 One was a fine, stout, middle-aged man, with immense whiskers and a cap of Manilla grass, a large blue jacket [etc.].

1877 R. F. Burton Sind Revisited I. i. 7 We smoked, generally Manilla cheroots, now supplanted by foul Dindigals and fetid ‘Trichies’.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework at Milanese Lace This is made in the Philippine Isles, with Manilla grass. The work..has not much the appearance of lace.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xiv. 218 Box after box of Manilla cigars rewarded his search.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiii. 173 He'd be glad to give..Mr. Wrenn..one of those Manila cigars—great cigars they were, too.

2000 W. Scheick in L. Champion & E. S. Nelson Amer. Women Writers 198 In the United States,..Lowell became newsworthy for the light Manila cigars she smoked.

2. Made from Manila hemp or Manila paper (see sense B. 4).

ΚΠ

1820 J. Crawfurd Hist. Indian Archipel. I. 413 The fibrous bark..affords the material of the most valuable cordage..known to our traders and navigators under the name of Manilla rope.

1833 J. Herschel Let. 28 Nov. in D. Evans Herschel at Cape (1969) 252 Round-topped white manilla hat like Mambrino's helmet.

1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. xxi. 427 Manilla mat-bags.

1855 J. F. Royle Fibrous Plants India 48 He had some made into rope, which very much resembled Manilla rope.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xix. §3790 Manilla and coir mattings.

1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 203 The elegant Manilla hats are manufactured from it [sc. Manilla hemp].

1893 Westm. Gaz. 20 July 4/2 Her captain had her big 15in. manila cable paid out to the Olympia.

1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods 4 A short [man]..dressed in a light grey suit and a Manila hat.

1974 ‘K. Royce’ Trap Spider i. 20 He lifted a small manilla file from his desk.

1990 Boston May 185/1 About 30 pages, two-color, on heavy manilla stock, eyestrain-size print but good graphics.

3. Of the light yellow-brown colour of Manila paper.

ΚΠ

1954 P. Highsmith Blunderer (1956) viii. 71 He put on old manila trousers.

B. n. Frequently in form manila.

1. = Manila hemp n. at Compounds. Also: rope made from Manila hemp.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > types of

sandwich1494

parchment lace1542

hempstring1573

sinnet1611

jackline1612

spun-yarn1627

sennit1769

Manila1826

four-inch1840

stropping1850

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of

fimble hemp1484

carl hemp?1523

henequen1555

steel hemp1604

Rusband1633

Riga rhine1639

Russia hemp1663

pass-hemp1742

chucking1785

Manila1826

sisal1827

sisal hemp1828

moorva1855

outshot1858

pass1858

carl doddie1868

outshots1880

1826 N.Y. Spectator 31 Oct. 300 bales Sisal Grass, similar to Manilla, have arrived this week, but are not yet landed.

1897 Daily News 24 May 2/3 Tows, hemps, and flaxes meet with a ready market..the finest Manillas making..£16 per ton.

1927 Observer 28 Aug. 17/2 It matters little whether it [sc. a hat-shape] be carried out in felt or bangkok or manilla.

1984 F. W. P. Bolger Memories Old Home Place 17/1 Laminated bows, nylon nets and polypropylene warps usually replace fir bows, cotton, Manila, and cedar.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 102 Stacked on the ground..were coils of every kind of rope, cotton and manilla and plaited rawhide and maguey and ixtle.

†2. A Manila cheroot or cigar (see sense A. 1). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cheroot > type of

Manila1843

lunkah1889

Burma cheroot1891

1843 Dublin Lit. Jrnl. 1 Dec. 143/1 (advt.) The stock comprises..Woodvilles, Regalias, Government Manillas,..with every other description of cigar now in demand.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond iv. 46 You and me with our coats off, plenty of cold rum-and-water, Mrs. Roundhead at Margate, and a whole box of Manillas?

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Manilas, a name for a kind of cheroots made in the Philippines.

1881 J. Hedderwick Villa by Sea 101 I will whiff a sad Manilla.

1890 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 467/2 Stopping now and then..to scrape a match on the seat of his velveteen trousers to light the Manilla I have given him.

3. = Manila paper n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > shade or strength of papers

grey paper1538

brown paper1542

blue paper1594

rope brown1891

Kraft1907

Manila1926

rope wrapping1937

1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 16 Manilla, a superfine tough quality of wrapping and label paper... The term is now loosely applied to cheap imitations made from wood pulp.

1959 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 67 Manilla, an imitation manila made in a wide variety of qualities. The term is now generally used to indicate the characteristic colour.

1979 C. Hayes Compl. Guide Painting & Drawing Techniques xv. 186 (caption) Shapes can be cut from stencil paper, which is usually an oiled manila.

1985 L. Lochhead True Confessions 16 I fanned out the fistful of manilla in my mitt.

4. The light yellow-brown colour of Manila paper.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > yellowish brown > fawn

fawn-colour1800

fawn1881

Manila1934

palomino1949

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Manila, a colour, yellowish red-yellow in hue, of low saturation and high brilliance.

Compounds

Manila envelope n. a large envelope, frequently buff in colour, made of Manila paper or (more recently) of paper of similar appearance.

ΚΠ

1889 Stationer & Printer 15 Mar. 3194/1 (advt.) Barnum & Co. Envelope Manufacturers... We make a specialty of large Manilla and No. 2 Rag Envelopes.

1910 ‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business i. 10 I'm on the stage for what I can cart away from it every pay-day in a little manila envelope.

1923 Zellerbach Paper Co. Catal. Stationery 59/2 Manila Envelopes..Lynx 100.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 126 A long manilla envelope tied with a blue ribbon that contained the papers on the horse and the bill of sale.

Manila fibre n. = Manila hemp n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre

palmite1555

coir1582

pita1648

kitul1681

silk-cotton1697

pita-thread1748

abaca1751

khus khus1798

gomuti1811

coco fibre1813

Manila hemp1814

pineapple fibre1834

moog1840

piassava1841

Para grass1850

raffia1850

African hair1851

ambari1851

diss1855

munj1855

monkey grass1858

crin vegetal1859

mung1866

lauhala1880

bass?1881

raphia bast1882

istle1883

raphia grass1885

settler's twine1898

tucum1901

Manila fibre1921

bassine1923

sotol1942

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Oct. 8/2 Manila fibre comes from a wild species of banana grown only in the Philippines.

1973 Materials & Technol. VI. ii. 149 Manila (or manilla) fibre is obtained from the leaves of a plant of the plantain family which grows in the Philippines.

Manila folder n. a folding cover for loose papers, made from thick Manila paper.

ΚΠ

1943 T. Roethke in Poetry Nov. 69 I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage, Desolation in immaculate public places.

1947 E. Hodgins Mr Blandings (1953) x. 116 Mr Blandings opened the manilla folder.

1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 245 Bonny replaces the albums in the gladstone and picks up a manilla folder, opens it.

Manila hemp n. the fibres of the pseudostem of the abaca plant Musa textilis (family Musaceae), used to make ropes, matting, paper, etc.; this plant itself.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre

palmite1555

coir1582

pita1648

kitul1681

silk-cotton1697

pita-thread1748

abaca1751

khus khus1798

gomuti1811

coco fibre1813

Manila hemp1814

pineapple fibre1834

moog1840

piassava1841

Para grass1850

raffia1850

African hair1851

ambari1851

diss1855

munj1855

monkey grass1858

crin vegetal1859

mung1866

lauhala1880

bass?1881

raphia bast1882

istle1883

raphia grass1885

settler's twine1898

tucum1901

Manila fibre1921

bassine1923

sotol1942

1814 W. Roxburgh Hortus Bengalensis 19 Textillis. Manilla hemp. Manilla. Dr. J. Fleming, 1811.

1855 J. F. Royle Fibrous Plants India 65 Manilla Hemp.

1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 16 Manilla, a superfine tough quality of wrapping and label paper made from Manilla hemp.

1993 M. J. Plotkin Tales Shaman's Apprentice vii. 220 Abacá, also known as Manila hemp, looks very similar to the banana tree but produces an inedible fruit.

Manila paper n. a paper of a light yellow-brown colour made from Manila hemp or (more recently) of other material, used esp. as wrapping paper.

ΚΠ

1866 Catal. Porter & Coates (Philadelphia) 14 in S. E. Todd Bridgeman's Amer. Gardener's Assistant (new ed.) Each book nicely covered with Manilla paper.

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 141 A layer of plain manilla paper.

1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 107 The charge is held in a wrapper of Keystone fiber—manilla paper, 6 inches square.

1997 Sci. Amer. July 56/2 This roofing material, which blended asbestos fibers into a tar, burlap and manila paper sandwich, paved the way for an immense industry in asbestos-based construction products.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	manila
释义	Manilaadj.n. Brit. /məˈnɪlə/, U.S. /məˈnɪlə/ Forms: 1600s– Manila, 1700s– Manilla. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Manila. Etymology: < Manila (usually spelt Manilla in English in the 19th cent.), the name of the capital of the Philippines. Compare French Manille, noun (1846 denoting a cigar, 1873 denoting a straw hat, 1878 denoting a rope made from Manila hemp). A. adj. 1. Designating any of various goods or commodities produced in or associated with Manila or the Philippines, as Manila cheroot, Manila cigar, Manila grass, Manila tobacco, Manila wood. ΚΠ 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 304 The Frier sent us aboard..50l. of Manila Tobacco. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 158 The celebrated Manila Wood, with which they build their Apaculpa [sic] Ships. 1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship III. xxxii. 73 On the evening of the third day, as they were smoking their Manilla cheroots. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 606 One was a fine, stout, middle-aged man, with immense whiskers and a cap of Manilla grass, a large blue jacket [etc.]. 1877 R. F. Burton Sind Revisited I. i. 7 We smoked, generally Manilla cheroots, now supplanted by foul Dindigals and fetid ‘Trichies’. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework at Milanese Lace This is made in the Philippine Isles, with Manilla grass. The work..has not much the appearance of lace. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xiv. 218 Box after box of Manilla cigars rewarded his search. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiii. 173 He'd be glad to give..Mr. Wrenn..one of those Manila cigars—great cigars they were, too. 2000 W. Scheick in L. Champion & E. S. Nelson Amer. Women Writers 198 In the United States,..Lowell became newsworthy for the light Manila cigars she smoked. 2. Made from Manila hemp or Manila paper (see sense B. 4). ΚΠ 1820 J. Crawfurd Hist. Indian Archipel. I. 413 The fibrous bark..affords the material of the most valuable cordage..known to our traders and navigators under the name of Manilla rope. 1833 J. Herschel Let. 28 Nov. in D. Evans Herschel at Cape (1969) 252 Round-topped white manilla hat like Mambrino's helmet. 1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. xxi. 427 Manilla mat-bags. 1855 J. F. Royle Fibrous Plants India 48 He had some made into rope, which very much resembled Manilla rope. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xix. §3790 Manilla and coir mattings. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 203 The elegant Manilla hats are manufactured from it [sc. Manilla hemp]. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 20 July 4/2 Her captain had her big 15in. manila cable paid out to the Olympia. 1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods 4 A short [man]..dressed in a light grey suit and a Manila hat. 1974 ‘K. Royce’ Trap Spider i. 20 He lifted a small manilla file from his desk. 1990 Boston May 185/1 About 30 pages, two-color, on heavy manilla stock, eyestrain-size print but good graphics. 3. Of the light yellow-brown colour of Manila paper. ΚΠ 1954 P. Highsmith Blunderer (1956) viii. 71 He put on old manila trousers. B. n. Frequently in form manila. 1. = Manila hemp n. at Compounds. Also: rope made from Manila hemp. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > types of sandwich1494 parchment lace1542 hempstring1573 sinnet1611 jackline1612 spun-yarn1627 sennit1769 Manila1826 four-inch1840 stropping1850 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of fimble hemp1484 carl hemp?1523 henequen1555 steel hemp1604 Rusband1633 Riga rhine1639 Russia hemp1663 pass-hemp1742 chucking1785 Manila1826 sisal1827 sisal hemp1828 moorva1855 outshot1858 pass1858 carl doddie1868 outshots1880 1826 N.Y. Spectator 31 Oct. 300 bales Sisal Grass, similar to Manilla, have arrived this week, but are not yet landed. 1897 Daily News 24 May 2/3 Tows, hemps, and flaxes meet with a ready market..the finest Manillas making..£16 per ton. 1927 Observer 28 Aug. 17/2 It matters little whether it [sc. a hat-shape] be carried out in felt or bangkok or manilla. 1984 F. W. P. Bolger Memories Old Home Place 17/1 Laminated bows, nylon nets and polypropylene warps usually replace fir bows, cotton, Manila, and cedar. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 102 Stacked on the ground..were coils of every kind of rope, cotton and manilla and plaited rawhide and maguey and ixtle. †2. A Manila cheroot or cigar (see sense A. 1). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cheroot > type of Manila1843 lunkah1889 Burma cheroot1891 1843 Dublin Lit. Jrnl. 1 Dec. 143/1 (advt.) The stock comprises..Woodvilles, Regalias, Government Manillas,..with every other description of cigar now in demand. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond iv. 46 You and me with our coats off, plenty of cold rum-and-water, Mrs. Roundhead at Margate, and a whole box of Manillas? 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Manilas, a name for a kind of cheroots made in the Philippines. 1881 J. Hedderwick Villa by Sea 101 I will whiff a sad Manilla. 1890 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 467/2 Stopping now and then..to scrape a match on the seat of his velveteen trousers to light the Manilla I have given him. 3. = Manila paper n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > shade or strength of papers grey paper1538 brown paper1542 blue paper1594 rope brown1891 Kraft1907 Manila1926 rope wrapping1937 1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 16 Manilla, a superfine tough quality of wrapping and label paper... The term is now loosely applied to cheap imitations made from wood pulp. 1959 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) 67 Manilla, an imitation manila made in a wide variety of qualities. The term is now generally used to indicate the characteristic colour. 1979 C. Hayes Compl. Guide Painting & Drawing Techniques xv. 186 (caption) Shapes can be cut from stencil paper, which is usually an oiled manila. 1985 L. Lochhead True Confessions 16 I fanned out the fistful of manilla in my mitt. 4. The light yellow-brown colour of Manila paper. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > yellowish brown > fawn fawn-colour1800 fawn1881 Manila1934 palomino1949 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Manila, a colour, yellowish red-yellow in hue, of low saturation and high brilliance. Compounds Manila envelope n. a large envelope, frequently buff in colour, made of Manila paper or (more recently) of paper of similar appearance. ΚΠ 1889 Stationer & Printer 15 Mar. 3194/1 (advt.) Barnum & Co. Envelope Manufacturers... We make a specialty of large Manilla and No. 2 Rag Envelopes. 1910 ‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business i. 10 I'm on the stage for what I can cart away from it every pay-day in a little manila envelope. 1923 Zellerbach Paper Co. Catal. Stationery 59/2 Manila Envelopes..Lynx 100. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 126 A long manilla envelope tied with a blue ribbon that contained the papers on the horse and the bill of sale. Manila fibre n. = Manila hemp n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre palmite1555 coir1582 pita1648 kitul1681 silk-cotton1697 pita-thread1748 abaca1751 khus khus1798 gomuti1811 coco fibre1813 Manila hemp1814 pineapple fibre1834 moog1840 piassava1841 Para grass1850 raffia1850 African hair1851 ambari1851 diss1855 munj1855 monkey grass1858 crin vegetal1859 mung1866 lauhala1880 bass?1881 raphia bast1882 istle1883 raphia grass1885 settler's twine1898 tucum1901 Manila fibre1921 bassine1923 sotol1942 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Oct. 8/2 Manila fibre comes from a wild species of banana grown only in the Philippines. 1973 Materials & Technol. VI. ii. 149 Manila (or manilla) fibre is obtained from the leaves of a plant of the plantain family which grows in the Philippines. Manila folder n. a folding cover for loose papers, made from thick Manila paper. ΚΠ 1943 T. Roethke in Poetry Nov. 69 I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage, Desolation in immaculate public places. 1947 E. Hodgins Mr Blandings (1953) x. 116 Mr Blandings opened the manilla folder. 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 245 Bonny replaces the albums in the gladstone and picks up a manilla folder, opens it. Manila hemp n. the fibres of the pseudostem of the abaca plant Musa textilis (family Musaceae), used to make ropes, matting, paper, etc.; this plant itself. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre palmite1555 coir1582 pita1648 kitul1681 silk-cotton1697 pita-thread1748 abaca1751 khus khus1798 gomuti1811 coco fibre1813 Manila hemp1814 pineapple fibre1834 moog1840 piassava1841 Para grass1850 raffia1850 African hair1851 ambari1851 diss1855 munj1855 monkey grass1858 crin vegetal1859 mung1866 lauhala1880 bass?1881 raphia bast1882 istle1883 raphia grass1885 settler's twine1898 tucum1901 Manila fibre1921 bassine1923 sotol1942 1814 W. Roxburgh Hortus Bengalensis 19 Textillis. Manilla hemp. Manilla. Dr. J. Fleming, 1811. 1855 J. F. Royle Fibrous Plants India 65 Manilla Hemp. 1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 16 Manilla, a superfine tough quality of wrapping and label paper made from Manilla hemp. 1993 M. J. Plotkin Tales Shaman's Apprentice vii. 220 Abacá, also known as Manila hemp, looks very similar to the banana tree but produces an inedible fruit. Manila paper n. a paper of a light yellow-brown colour made from Manila hemp or (more recently) of other material, used esp. as wrapping paper. ΚΠ 1866 Catal. Porter & Coates (Philadelphia) 14 in S. E. Todd Bridgeman's Amer. Gardener's Assistant (new ed.) Each book nicely covered with Manilla paper. 1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 141 A layer of plain manilla paper. 1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 107 The charge is held in a wrapper of Keystone fiber—manilla paper, 6 inches square. 1997 Sci. Amer. July 56/2 This roofing material, which blended asbestos fibers into a tar, burlap and manila paper sandwich, paved the way for an immense industry in asbestos-based construction products. 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