Chapter TALEE to TALIPOT of T by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Talipot.…”—Knox, 15.

„ “They (the priests) have the honour of carrying the Tallipot with the broad end over their heads foremost; which none but the King does.”—Ibid. 74. [See TALAPOIN.]

1803.—“The talipot tree…affords a prodigious leaf, impenetrable to sun or rain, and large enough to shelter ten men. It is a natural umbrella, and is of as eminent service in that country as a great-coat tree would be in this. A leaf of the talipot-tree is a tent to the soldier, a parasol to the traveller, and a book to the scholar.”—Sydney Smith, Works, 3rd ed. iii. 15.

1874.—“…dans les embrasures…s’étalaient des bananiers, des tallipots.…”—Franz, Souvenirs d’un Cosaque, ch. iv.

1881.—“The lofty head of the talipot palm…the proud queen of the tribe in Ceylon, towers above the scrub on every side. Its trunk is perfectly straight and white, like a slender marble column, and often more than 100 feet high. Each of the fans that compose the crown of leaves covers a semicircle of from 12 to 16 feet radius, a surface of 150 to 200 square feet.”—Haeckel’s Visit to Ceylon, E.T. p. 129.