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Sho′la.


Fabric.) A substance resembling Chinese ricepaper, manufactured in India from the cellular pithlike stems of the Hedysarum lagenarium, and used for making life-buoys, boxes, bottle-cases, hats, and numerous other articles. Its cellular structure and lightness particularly adapt it for the manufacture of hats, and the ivory-like surface which may be imparted to it, for ornamental objects.

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