Wicker vs Rattan - What's the difference?
wicker | rattan |
A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture
Wickerwork.
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Made of wickerwork.
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Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus .
(lb) The plant used as a material.
A cane made from this material.
*1906 , Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
*:He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan . ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
*2008 , Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization
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As nouns the difference between wicker and rattan
is that wicker is a flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture while rattan is any of several species of climbing palm of the genus genus: Calamus.As an adjective wicker
is made of wickerwork.wicker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.
Derived terms
* wickerwork * rewicker * Wicker ManSee also
* basket * cradle English terms with homophonesAdjective
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
