marla

noun

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   Plasticine; modelling clay.

   Miss Carney handed us out blank paper and marla, old plasticine with the colours all rolled together into brown.

   As she sits and plays with Damien, she feels her legs start to tremble from the effort. Her knees seem to disappear. Plasticine legs, she says to Damien. Old marla legs.

noun

1. 1

   A rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia.

noun

1. 1

   A unit of area used in the Indian subcontinent, of varying size, but roughly 250 square feet.

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marlas