wicker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   flexible twigs, cane, or similar plant material woven to make baskets, furniture, and other objects, or the woven work itself

   The picnic basket and chairs were made of tightly woven wicker.

From Middle English wiker, probably of Scandinavian or wider Germanic origin and related to words for pliant willow or flexible material. Its history is also associated with Old Norse veikr ("weak, pliant").

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