variants:
or Malacca
or malacca cane
or malacca
Definition of Malacca cane
: the often mottled, slender wood stem of an Asian rattan palm (especially Calamus rotang) used especially for walking sticks and umbrella handles
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The first known use of Malacca cane was in 1844
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