mahogany
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He is not sitting at a workbench but at a mahogany table polished to a fare-thee-well and reflecting the sitter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Among the answers: a small ink-stained mahogany desk, an antique light bulb, a brown leather flight suit and a baseball jersey.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“All of our mothers’ furniture and grandmothers’ furniture is very hard to sell because it’s mahogany, it’s vintage,” Hall said.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
The guitar, a mahogany Gibson SG, was one Iommi said he had owned for a while and used at home.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Behind the gentlemen’s barbered heads, dark mahogany planks stand at attention.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Some intense blooms tint the ocean in swirling blues, mahoganies or “red tides” visible from space—psychedelic watercolors of microscopic life on a macroscale.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 24, 2022
The furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile" at the beholder.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make up for the dearth of propane gas and kerosene, peasants have slashed away at trees, even mangoes, windbreaks and the mahoganies that shade the coffee crop.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the hardest-hit areas, 60% of the hardwood trees are gone, including huge mahoganies, and many of the rare Puerto Rican parrots have disappeared.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bread-fruit tree with its broad, scalloped leaves, the showy star-apple, glossy green above deep gold below, mahoganies, oranges, and bananas, all seem to grow wild.
From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
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