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manila

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United States//məˈnɪlə//
  • //mɐˈni.lɐ//

Made of manila paper or material like it.

adjective

  1. 1

    Made of manila paper or material like it.

    a manila envelope

  2. 2

    Yellow-brown; colored like manila paper.

Etymology

From Manila.

noun

  1. 1

    Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper.

  2. 2

    The yellow-brown color of manila.

  3. 3

    A kind of cheroot manufactured in Manila.

Forms

plural
manilas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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