Scarcely taking his eyes off Toni, he attended to securing the piassava rope to its mooring.    From Wordnik.com.  [River Of Desire]

The exports also include hides, mangabeira rubber, piassava fibre, diamonds, cabinet woods and rum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

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 property of Luis Quental himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [River Of Desire]

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 industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguard News] Reference

The latter consisted chiefly of rubber, palm oil and kernels, coffee, piassava fiber, ivory, ginger, camwood, and arnotto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Negro] Reference

(precise Amerind language unknown); piassava, piasaba, pias-saba, piasawa (Tupí); and tacamahac, tacamahaca, tacama-hack, takamake (Nahuatl).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference