Meanings
nounZanzibar mat (plural Zanzibar mats)
plural Zanzibar mats
- A type of traditional Tanzanian woven mat, made from variously dyed plant fibres.
Walking a few yards down this passage, which was lighted with lamps, we came to the entrance of a chamber having a curtain made of some grass material, not unlike a Zanzibar mat in appearance, hung over the doorway.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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