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单词 riem
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Definition of riem in English:

riem

(also riempie)
nounPlural riempies, Plural riems riːmrɪm
South African
  • A strip of rawhide or worked leather, used as a rope or in making chairs and other furniture.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The waentjies had functioning disselbooms, jukke and skeie complete with carefully cut riempies spantoue for inspanning the oxen.
    • There are 230 drummers, mostly banging on riempie drums, with a core unit of 15 bigger djembe drums carrying the sound.
    • Smith says the riempie chair is to an extent a symbol of his own culture or tribe, ‘an object of craft or design which presents an opportunity to deconstruct, reinterpret and reassemble’.

Origin

Dutch.

 
 
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