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‖ medrinaque ? Obs.
Also 8 madrenaque.
[Sp. medriñaque, ‘Philippine stuff for stiffening women's skirts; short skirt’ (Cuyás Appleton's Sp.–Eng. Dict., N.Y., 1903); of obscure origin.
The Sp. word occurs in A. de Morga Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (1609) in the forms medrinaque (p. 136) and mendriñaque (p. 138). It appears not to be, as might be supposed, a Tagal word, for in Santos' Vocab. Tagalo 1794 it is given as Spanish with various Tagal renderings. (Cf. medrinacks.)]
(See quots.).
1704tr. Gemelli-Carperi's Voy. v. in Churchill's Voy. IV. 442 [The Philippine islanders make] of the Thread of the Coco-Tree, a sort of Cloth they call Madrenaque, with the warp of Cotton. 1851MacMicking Recoll. Manilla 217 In Luzon..the natives make a species of cloth from the plantain-tree, known by the names of Medrinaque and Guiara cloths. Ibid., The bulk of all the Medrinaque exported goes to the United States. 1866Treas. Bot. 728 Medrinaque, a coarse fibre from the Philippines, obtained from the Sago palm, and used chiefly for stiffening dress linings, &c. [In later Dicts.] |