OLLA

ola, olla

(noun) leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

olla (plural ollas)

A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.

A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.

An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.

A cinerary urn in ancient Rome.

Anagrams

• 'allo, Lola, allo, allo-, lalo

Source: Wiktionary


Ol"la, n. Etym: [See Olio.]

1. A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.

2. A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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11 June 2025

LIGHT

(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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