OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12474

manja

Meanings (ES + gloss)
hilo curado
A glass-coated string attached to a kite, used to cut the strings of other kites in kite fighting.
In spring when the sky was dotted with paper kites, the young men and boys allowed the girls to hold the manja, kite string made abrasive with finely crushed glass.
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