There were a dress and tunic decorated with translucent cut-out scallops by Marques Marzan, a lauhala weaver and native practitioner affiliated with Bishop Museum. From Wordnik.com. [Mindy Pennybacker: Food Rule 5-0: Go Whole Hog; Never Eat Wild Predators] Reference
The clothes ranged from fussy missionary muu-muus to body-tracing shapes in fresh colors and geometric leaf prints; others used hand-beaten tapa bark cloth, woven lauhala fronds, feathers and other traditional materials in startlingly original couture. From Wordnik.com. [Mindy Pennybacker: Food Rule 5-0: Go Whole Hog; Never Eat Wild Predators] Reference
Any man of all the men who work for me, feed out of my hand, and let me do their thinking for them -- me, who work harder than any of them, who eats no more than any of them, and who can sleep on no more than one lauhala mat at a time like any of them?. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
She said each set of bones has been wrapped and placed in a lauhala basket. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The pandanus, or lauhala, is one of the most striking features of the islands. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
You can choose seatingon lauhala mats for traditional Hawaiian dining, or at tables if you prefer. From Wordnik.com. [We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!] Reference
No song of birds, or busy hum of insects, accompanied the rustle of the lauhala leaves and the low murmur of the surf. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
The brown tattooed limbs of one man are stretched across the mat, the others are sitting cross-legged, making lauhala leis. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
The eyes of all were intently fixed upon the solitary sleeper who lay on his back on a lauhala mat a hundred feet away under the monkey-pod trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Bones of Kahekili] Reference
And the giant harpooner was still roaring, his the last sounds in my ear, as I fell back on the lauhala mat, and was to all things for the time as one dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Bones of Kahekili] Reference
An elevated rolling region, park-like, liberally ornamented with clumps of ohia, lauhala, hau, (hibiscus) and koa, and intersected with gullies full of large eugenias, lies outside the mountain spurs behind Koloa. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Any man of all the men who work for me, feed out of my hand, and let me do their thinking for themme, who work harder than any of them, who eats no more than any of them, and who can sleep on no more than one lauhala mat at a time like any of them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bones of Kahekili] Reference
Doors open at 6 p.m. for an evening that includes a fresh flower or kukui nut lei greeting, a welcome mai tai, cultural activities such as tiki carving, lei making and lauhala weaving, the lu'au-style dinner buffet, two drinks and the show, which wraps up at 8:15. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Kea on one side, and on the other down upon the calm blue Pacific, wrinkled by the sweet trade-wind, till it blends in far-off loveliness with the still, blue, sky; and heavy surges break on the reefs, and fritter themselves away on the rocks, tossing their pure foam over ti and lauhala trees, and the exquisite ferns and trailers which mantle the cliffs down to the water’s edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
One looks up the wooded, broken slopes to a wild volcanic wilderness and the snowy peaks of Mauna Kea on one side, and on the other down upon the calm blue Pacific, wrinkled by the sweet trade-wind, till it blends in far-off loveliness with the still, blue, sky; and heavy surges break on the reefs, and fritter themselves away on the rocks, tossing their pure foam over ti and lauhala trees, and the exquisite ferns and trailers which mantle the cliffs down to the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
And I have a lauhala plant, and there's moa. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The women, in squads of a dozen at a time, their Pa-us streaming behind them, were cantering up and down the streets, and men and women were thronging into the market-place; a brilliant, laughing, joking crowd, their jaunty hats trimmed with fresh flowers, and leis of the crimson ohia and orange lauhala falling over their costumes, which were white, green, black, scarlet, blue, and every other colour that can be dyed or imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
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