Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The matted cocoa-palm leaves used in southern India for thatch.
  • noun A section or strip of palm-leaf prepared for use as writing-material.

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Examples

  • Each man also possesses a "cadjan," or sleeping-mat, made of the broad leaves of a pandanus neatly sewn together in three layers.

    The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • This was just as well, as she heard that the previous week a young British naval commander who saw a six-foot-long cobra in his cadjan dove out his open window and escaped with only a sprained thumb.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Identifying the female as “Julia, the 6′2″ bien-jambee,” he continued in a pedantic tone, “The room is a typical 10 × 18 with its coir matting, woven cadjan walls, wooden shutters, and army bed with folded-up mosquito net above.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • This was just as well, as she heard that the previous week a young British naval commander who saw a six-foot-long cobra in his cadjan dove out his open window and escaped with only a sprained thumb.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • After being shown her MO cadjan, Jane was introduced to some of the more senior officers.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Sitting in her office cadjan, Jane had come to recognize the now-familiar signs of the coming onslaught: first came the roaring sound, steadily gathering force as it tore through the jungle; the sky dimmed; a violent wind whipped up and filled the air with the smell of rotten leaves; then came the slashing rain.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Identifying the female as “Julia, the 6′2″ bien-jambee,” he continued in a pedantic tone, “The room is a typical 10 × 18 with its coir matting, woven cadjan walls, wooden shutters, and army bed with folded-up mosquito net above.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • After being shown her MO cadjan, Jane was introduced to some of the more senior officers.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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