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单词 medrinaque
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medrinaquen.

Brit. /ˈmɛdrᵻnak/, U.S. /ˈmɛdrəˌnæk/
Forms: 1700s madrenaque, 1800s– medrinaque.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish medriñaque.
Etymology: < Spanish medriñaque, mendriñaque (1609); further etymology uncertain: perhaps related to medrinacks n.The word appears not to be, as might be inferred from quot. 1704, a Tagalogword. In Santos' Vocab. Tagalog (1794) it is given as the Spanish equivalent to various Tagalog words.
Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.
Fibre made from the sago palm and other trees of the Philippines; cloth made from this fibre.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > other
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1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World i. x, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 442/2 [The Philippine islanders make] of the Thread of the Coco-Tree, a sort of Cloth they call Madrenaque, with the warp of Cotton.
1851 R. MacMicking Recoll. Manilla & Philippines 217 In Luzon..the natives make a species of cloth from the plantain-tree, known by the names of Medrinaque and Guiara cloths.
1851 R. MacMicking Recoll. Manilla & Philippines 217 The bulk of all the Medrinaque exported goes to the United States.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 728 Medrinaque, a coarse fibre from the Philippines, obtained from the Sago palm, and used chiefly for stiffening dress linings, &c.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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