Usage examples (6)

• Scarcely taking his eyes off Toni, he attended to securing the piassava rope to its mooring.
• The exports also include hides, mangabeira rubber, piassava fibre, diamonds, cabinet woods and rum.
• Hammocks could not be slung in tents as small as hers, so a thin lumpy mattress and a pillow of piassava fiber had been dragged into place - both, Fern-o informed her,...
• The tree also produces piassava, another major commodity of the 1850's Atlantic trade, which still has export value today, and could also support the twine and foot mart...