"embira" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1811, Robert Southey, “View of the State of Brasil in 1581”, in The Scots Magazine, page 280",
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          "roman": "page 535: The embira or caraguatá strings, were made taut or lax by twisting.",
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          "text": "page 259: Alfred R. Wallace (1853) says that they were made of three strips of embira, [...]\npage 287: Boys 8 to 12, who do not yet use the penis sheath, wear under their buriti belts two fringed embira aprons, one over the other.",
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