Crossword-Solution: ESPARTO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Esparto | n. | A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ESPARTO | anagram | OPERAST, PASTORE, PROTEAS, SEAPORT, SPARETO, TOSPARE |
We have 28 clues for the answer “ESPARTO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Good grass for cords | 1 answer |
| perennial grass of north Africa and the southern part of Europe | 1 answer |
| grass Spanish | 1 answer |
| Wiry grass | 1 answer |
| Spanish grass | 1 answer |
| Grass used in papermaking. | 1 answer |
| Grass used in basketry. | 1 answer |
| Grass used for making paper | 1 answer |
| Grass for some baskets | 1 answer |
| Grass for making paper | 1 answer |
| Grass for cordage | 1 answer |
| Grass for baskets | 1 answer |
| Cordage grass | 1 answer |
| ABSORBENT paper ingredient | 1 answer |
| Hardy grass | 2 answers |
| paper making herb | 2 answers |
| herb paper making | 2 answers |
| NORTH African grass | 2 answers |
| Coarse grass | 4 answers |
| Africa grass | 4 answers |
| ALFA | 5 answers |
| Grass variety | 5 answers |
| CORDAGE SOURCE | 10 answers |
| CORDAGE | 10 answers |
| A PLANT FIBRE USED FOR CORDAGE, NETS, AND CARPETS | 11 answers |
| Kind of grass | 11 answers |
| Cordage fiber | 13 answers |
| Grass | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESPARTO (5)
His legs were kept wide apart by ample saddle-bags of esparto cloth, swelled out with cedrats and water-melons.
What shall our city be called? PISTHETAERUS Will you have a high-sounding Laconian name? Shall we call it Sparta? EUELPIDES What! call my town Sparta? Why, I would not use esparto for my bed,(1) even though I had nothing but bands of rushes.
This "halfa" or "esparto" grass is collected by the Arabs on the mountain side, and brought down and sold to merchants to go and make paper in England.
Then a fine deep basin is made, woven of roots, grass, and some wiry stalk like esparto, the secret of where to find which seems a special possession of crows, and on this often a lining of bits of sheep's wool and cow's hair.
What! call my town Sparta? Why, I would not use esparto for my bed,[269] even though I had nothing but bands of rushes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1959–2014).