tenate

plural tenates · alternative tanate

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

   He comes back to pick up the tenate full of tortillas and embarks on his daily journey.

   2016, Mario E. López-Gopar, Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching, Multilingual Matters

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

   1942, Maria Cristina Chambers, The Water-Carrier’s Secrets, Oxford University Press, page 150

   “You know how I could be the most beautiful woman in the world?” “How?” “With a tenate basket over my head.”

   1994, Sergio Galindo, translated by Carolyn Brushwood and John Brushwood, Otilia’s Body: A Novel, The University of Texas Press, translation of Otilia Rauda