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Definition of "jusi"

jusi

  • noun

    uncountable

    1. (Philippines) a thin fabric woven from the fibers of the Manila plantain (abaca), Musa textilis, and pineapple leaves, to which filaments of imported silk are sometimes added and sometimes a little cotton. It is woven principally in Iloilo and western Luzon: used for women's dresses and, to some extent, for men's shirts.    

      Quotations

      • It is made of jusi cloth, that is, cloth woven from banana leaf fiber.

        1917, John Stuart Thomson, Fil and Filippa‎

      • Her head covered with a handkerchief saturated in cologne, her body wrapped carefully in white sheets which swathed her youthful form with many folds, under curtains of jusi and pina, the girl lay on her kamagon bed.

        1912, Jose Rizal, The Social Cancer‎

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