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mahogany
English
Etymology
From Spanish mahogani, possibly from a Mayan name.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??h???ni/
- Rhymes: -???ni
Noun
mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)
- (uncountable) The wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. [from 17th c.]
- (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes. [from 18th c.]
- (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. [from 18th c.]
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:
- William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:
- A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. [from 19th c.]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:
- Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:
- (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table. [19th c.]
- 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
- Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]
- 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)
- Made of mahogany.
- Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
References
- mahogany at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Hogmanay
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redwood
English
Etymology
red +? wood
Noun
redwood (plural redwoods)
- (countable, uncountable, USDA-preferred term) The species Sequoia sempervirens.
- a redwood grove
- This redwood deck will last forever.
- (countable) Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
- (uncountable) The wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
- This planter is made of redwood.
- (uncountable, Britain, obsolete) Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
- (countable) The tree Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
- (uncountable) Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.
Derived terms
Translations
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