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
“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
From mahogany and ebony they made sculpture and furnished their homes.
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
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
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 furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile" at the beholder.
From Time Magazine Archive
He, however, condescended to bring his taste to bear on the hunting-dress; and, it is said, introduced white tops instead of the ancient mahoganies.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Philip Wharton
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