Definition of "tali" [tali]

• Plural of talus1. (noun)

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• "Aïtali is a design firm launched in 2003 in Bordeaux whose defining statement is: “Dream and reality of new manufacturing processes to give the appearance of new furniture … provocative new emotions.”"
• "I cannot omit to remark here that, however apposite the word tali, which in Malayan signifies a cord, may be to the subject of the marriage tie, there is very strong evidence of the term, as applied to this ceremony, having been adopted from the customs of the Hindu inhabitants of the peninsula of India, in whose language it has a different meaning."
• "The leaders of the Cazamance and Balantes peoples in West Africa, for example, used a preparation based in part on the bark of a tree known as tali Erythrophleum guineense— Leguminosae."