mahogany

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1. error lua execuncountableThe valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.First known use 17th c.

   In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).

   2010 December 9, Eve M. Kahn, “Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2020

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   A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…].

   1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

2. countableerror lua execAny of the trees from which such wood comes.First known use 18th c.
3. countableerror lua exec(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
4. countableerror lua execregionaluncountableA Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.First known use 18th c.

   Next day, the fish was 'scrowled' on a gridiron over the fire and eaten with 'mahogany', a powerful mixture of black treacle and gin, a favourite tipple of Cornish fishermen for keeping out the cold!

   2006, Sara Paston-Williams, Fish: Recipes from a Busy Island, page 39

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   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

5. countableerror lua execuncountableA reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.First known use 19th c.

   Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

6. colloquialcountableerror lua execobsoleteuncountableA table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.First known use 19th c.

   Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

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   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?

   1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

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1. error lua execMade of mahogany.
2. error lua execHaving the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

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