"marla" meaning in English

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          "text": "Miss Carney handed us out blank paper and marla,\nold plasticine with the colours\nall rolled together into brown.",
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          "text": "As she sits and plays with Damien, she feels her legs start to tremble from the effort. Her knees seem to disappear.\nPlasticine legs, she says to Damien. Old marla legs.",
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        "Plasticine; modelling clay."
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        "(Ireland) Plasticine; modelling clay."
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        "A rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia."
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