Lexicographical Neighbors of Attaps
Literary usage of Attaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1902)
"Our sails, with a few old attaps from a deserted hut in the village, ...
I therefore purchased a few new and some old attaps, and in the parts these would ..."
2. The Isle of Vanishing Men: A Narrative of Adventure in Cannibal-land by William Fisher Alder (1922)
"The leaves overlap one another and in consequence the attaps will shed the hardest
of the hard rains for which these latitudes are noted. ..."
3. About Ceylon and Borneo: Being an Account of Two Visits to Ceylon, One to by Walter J. Clutterbuck (1892)
"This graceful palm is utilised in various ways, the principal being in the
manufacture of thatching for house-roofs, in Borneo called attaps. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... a low, stemless palm, are woven into large shingles known as ' attaps.'
Fibers derived from the vascular bundles alone are obtained from the leaf-stalks ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"... attaps, which are made all down this coast from the dunny palm for roofing
purposes, and largely sold in Puket, Penang, etc. They pile them high in the ..."
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