bird's-eye maple

alternative birdseye maple · alternative bird's eye maple

1. uncountableMaple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.

   So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.

   1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 58

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   The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.

   1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47

   More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

   1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21