mahogany
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Referencing original black-and-white photos, Jackson designed a massive 120-foot-long set, complete with a stage, seating, bleachers and mahogany flooring, to be filled with up to 500 extras.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
The court wasn't one of those historic rooms with lots of mahogany and Victorian furnishings.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
I pictured her at the piano, back in the days when its mahogany gleamed and every note was true.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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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
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Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Among the woods were the mahoganies, the iron-wood, the ebony, the lignum vit�, the cedar, and many others, of names unfamiliar to me, which admit of the most exquisite polish.
From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry
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