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Meaning of Marla | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

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

Français marla

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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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