Crossword-Solution: RAFFIA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Raffia | n. | A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RAFFIA | anagram | AFFAIR |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RAFFIA (5)
That So-and-so should be the President, and such-and-such a party have control is but a game we play at, amateurs and professionals; the serious business is, that in this country no child, how poor soever it may be, shall have the slightest let or hindrance in the equal chance with every other child to learn to read, and write, and cipher, and do raffia-work.
Better far are drawing-lessons, and raffia-work, and clay-modeling than: “I come not here to talk,” and “A soldier of the Legion lay dying at Algiers,” and “Old Ironsides at anchor lay.” (I observe that these lines are more or less familiar to you, and that you are eager to add selections to the list, all of them known to me as well as you.) That children, especially boys, loathe to speak a piece is a fact profoundly significant.
Later in the school year she urged the children to bring dried corn husk to school, she brought brightly colored raffia, and taught them how to make baskets.
The fascinating task of forming objects of beauty and usefulness from homely corn husk and a few gay threads of raffia was novel to them.
See that it is planted straight, and if the "whip," or small trunk, is not straight stake it, and tie it with rye straw, raffia or strips of old cloth-never string or wire.
Quotes with RAFFIA (1)
the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits - love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and leprosy, religion a few stones in the centre of the village where the dead chiefs lay, a grove of trees where the rice birds, like yellow and green canaries, built their nests, a man in a mask…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).