Marla

Definitions

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
2. Plasticine; modelling clay.
   Ireland, uncountable
3. A rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia.
   Australia
4. A unit of area used in the Indian subcontinent, of varying size, but roughly 250 square feet.

Equivalents

Examples

“Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post⟳ “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record⟳ a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property.”

“Miss⟳ Carney handed us out blank paper and marla, old plasticine with the colours all rolled together into brown.”

“As she sits and plays with Damien, she feels her legs start⟳ to tremble from the effort. Her knees seem to disappear⟳. Plasticine legs, she says to Damien. Old marla legs.”

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