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tenate

noun

  1. A kind of deep cylindrical basket, usually made of woven palm, used in Mexico.

    She pretended not to hear him and busied herself opening her tenate—the basket without handles, made of matting—where she carried her clothes.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish tenate, tanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tānahtli.

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

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