单词 | palm-leaf book |
释义 | > as lemmaspalm-leaf book palm-leaf book n. ΚΠ 1853 E. C. Judson Kathayan Slave 86 A lady sat in the verandah of her Burmese bungalow, endeavoring to decipher the scarcely legible characters of a palm-leaf book. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali i. 7 The second half of the manuscript [of the Tjatur Yoga] is extremely obscure, full of errors, and appears incomplete, perhaps owing to careless copying of an older palm-leaf book. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 117 Making love with her was like dancing; there was the same attention to choreography, to positions illustrated in brilliant colours in old palm-leaf books. < as lemmas |
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