sandal-wood

A form of sandalwood — Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.

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Meanings

nounsandal-wood (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of sandalwood.

    Good, good; I can reach that down when he comes. Madelon, burn some sandal-wood on the stairs; and, Madelon, when I look at the picture of Tragedy, with the dagger and cup, go you, without my telling, into the cellar—here is the key—and bring up a bottle of Burgundy:...

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 161
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