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manilla

[ muh-nil-uh ]

manilla

/ əˈɪə /

noun

  1. an early form of currency in W Africa in the pattern of a small bracelet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of manilla1

from Spanish: bracelet, diminutive of mano hand, from Latin manus
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The one below depicts manillas - the brass bracelets introduced as a form of currency by Portuguese traders and used from the 16th to the 19th Centuries.

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When asked how he decides where to give, Jacob Qualls, a business consultant in Chicago, grabbed a manilla envelope on his desk and sifted through his giving receipts from the past year.

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The official document arrived in a manilla envelope more than five years after his wife put together a thick packet of recommendation letters for his clemency application.

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Police also seized a notebook with starfish that belonged to Zwerner as well as a laptop and a manilla folder labeled with name of the boy who shot her, according to the search warrants.

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Phones were collected in manilla envelopes and stored away before the proceedings began, and Bettman announced: “If anyone’s not planning to stay in the room, now is the time to leave.”

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