mahogany

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“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

Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

She got her hair done—a cut just above the shoulder, a dark mahogany dye job and a blow out—at the facility’s prisoner-run salon where inmates can earn credit toward cosmetology certificates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Warily watching the British in Boston, “Washington frequently had Billy Lee remove his mahogany and brass spyglass from its handsome leather case so he could engage in surveillance of his adversary,” biographer Ron Chernow records.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis