▪ I. ‖ shola1
(ˈʃəʊlə)
[Hindī sholā ({cced}olā) = Bengalī solā.]
= sola1.
| 1836 F. Parks Wand. Pilgr. (1850) II. 100 Each float was formed of eight pieces of sholā... When this light and spongy pith is wetted, it can be cut into thin layers, which, pasted together, are formed into hats. 1884 Sunday at Home June 373/2, I cannot but grieve to see the graceful shola disappearing fast before the planter's axe. |
| attrib. 1876 J. H. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. IV. 100/2 æschynomene aspera (Shola plant, the Rice-paper plant of India). 1887 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 726 They are not so durable as the Sola or Shola hats of Calcutta. |
▪ II. ‖ shola2
(ˈʃəʊlə)
Also sholah.
[Tamil {cced}olāi.]
A thicket or jungle, in Southern India.
| 1862 Markham Trav. Peru & India xxiii. 38 A wooded ravine or shola. Ibid. 383 There are many sholas which will be found equally well adapted for the growth of the hardier chinchonas. 1863 Sir V. Brooke in O. L. Stephen Mem. (1894) 109 She [the tigress] got weaker and weaker, let go the boar, and slunk off to the sholah. |