OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 52824

tenate

Meanings (ES + gloss)
tanate • tenate • tompeate • tompiate
A kind of deep cylindrical basket, usually made of woven palm, used in Mexico.
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.”
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