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Recent Examples of rattan
Off the back, a three-season sunroom — painted in calming hues, strung with lights, and furnished with repurposed rattan, offers the perfect perch to watch the fire pit glow as night falls.
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Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 18 July 2025
The key to ensuring bold colors don’t overpower your nursery design is to embrace natural woods, textures, rattans, and jutes.
—Nina Derwin, Architectural Digest, 18 July 2025
It is made from a sturdy metal frame wrapped in dark brown rattan.
—Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 11 July 2025
The chairs and ottomans are crafted from weather-resistant PE rattan that stands up to harsh UV rays, rain, and other outdoor elements.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rattan
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Despite its name, river birch trees perform well in drier soils and are drought tolerant once established.—
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Mixed oak woods, pine and birch, upland rowan.—
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Try Palm Bay’s version at Memaw’s Bar-B-Que, where the meats are cooked for hours over a hickory and oak hardwood firepit.—
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When burned, the wood produces a rich, aromatic smoke due to high lignin levels, which imparts a more intense flavor than oak or hickory, with earthy cumin undertones and a mild sweetness.—
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The main selling point here is the slingback strap that can be worn tucked up on the vamp or adjusted down to secure your heel in place.—
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This single-strap leather tote is a tad more practical for everyday use but still fits into the slouchy, hobo trends that are carrying over into 2026.—
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This natural cowhide has been used by the house since the 1880s, famously serving as a trim on the Monogram bags.—
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There are ski helmets and Stetsons, colorful Gortex bibs and brown cowhide chaps, floor-length fur coats and hip-length puffer jackets — and of course, ski boots and cowboy boots.—
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Other than the boulder, the stunt show at Disney World also features a bullwhip demonstration and falls from tall buildings, as well as stunts with axe-swinging stone soldiers and punji stick pressure plates.—
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Arcs of electricity bolted from it, blue bullwhips that flashed out from it and left thunder in their wake.—
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Pictures of Piper the dog, who last year went through an awful health scare after having a rawhide treat.—
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Chinese laborers, rare for that time, made rawhide bags on site to take the limestone and dump it into iron buckets on an aerial tramway, according to Meniketti’s report.—
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The sedate throwing of flowers erupted into a fistfight, a ministampede and people lashed with whips and riding quirts.—
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Actually, the sooner the better to obtain an early start on this spring crop.—
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The extensive waterworks also made way for sprawling sugarcane fields in the Everglades Agricultural Area, where farmers tended their crops with nutrient-rich fertilizers.—
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“Rattan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rattan. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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