Lexicographical Neighbors of Troolie
Literary usage of Troolie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Fiji, Australia by George William Des Vœux (1903)
"CHAPTER III The tributaries of the Demerara—Scenery of creeks—The troolie palm—
Delusion about tropical vegetation—The ..."
2. Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn (1883)
"The leaves of this afford a thatch which is, in one respect, still more convenient
than troolie. They are gathered and fastened by their stalks, ..."
3. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1884)
"... fish or crabs which form their chief subsistence, were probably, as they still
certainly are, among the troolie palms of the river, or sea-side, swamp. ..."
4. In Guiana Wilds: A Study of Two Women by James Rodway (1899)
"Protection from sun and rain, and uprights for attaching the hammock-ropes were
given by the troolie thatch and the posts of the shed ; what more did they ..."
5. British Guiana Boundary: Arbitration with the United States of Venezuela by Great Britain (1898)
"There is another subject which I must crave pardon of your Excellency for
introducing here relative to the troolie Cutting in the Pomeroon Kiver. ..."
6. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1911)
"A little farther on we come upon reaches troolie PALM. where the most striking
objects are ... here a troolie with almost undivided leaves twelve feet long, ..."
7. The History of British Guiana: Comprising a General Description of the by Henry G. Dalton (1855)
"When it is stated that some of the leaves of the troolie-tree are nearly thirty
feet long, and three broad, it is easy to understand that a substantial ..."
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