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palapa

noun

  1. An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves.

    At the average home price, you can find a two- or even three-bedroom house with a pool and palapa.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish palapa, from Tagalog palapa (“midrib of a coconut frond”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaqpaq.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry palapa (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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