tenate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"She pretended not to hear him and busied herself opening her tenate—the basket without handles, made of matting—where she carried her clothes."
"“You know how I could be the most beautiful woman in the world?” “How?” “With a tenate basket over my head.”"
"He comes back to pick up the tenate full of tortillas and embarks on his daily journey."

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

tenates (plural) tanate (alternative)

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