tatane

English

Noun

tatane

1. (possibly obsolete) A South American tree, also called the palo amarillo or tatare, which has a piquant juice in its bark used for dyeing, and golden yellow wood good for carpentry.
   • 1885, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map, page 8:

     Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...

   • 1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247:

     Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...

   • 1896, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 317:

     ... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...

French

Noun

tatane f (plural tatanes)

1. shoe

Further reading

• “tatane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.