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- noun A
hardwood obtained from thecherry tree , valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.
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Examples
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The "games room," as Granddad jokingly called the cherrywood cabinet that held the chess set, was beside fireplace.
Temporary Wife Kilby, Joan 1999
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Kit pushed Fancy in front of the small cherrywood box with a round lens on the front that sat atop a brass stand.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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It stands 10 1/4 tall as mounted on the SteamPunked stand made of a simulated cherrywood base, copper tubing, chemistry glass, an adjustable 4x magnifying glass and other ornate trimmings.
Boing Boing 2009
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The taste, for me, was kind of sidetracked by the grease -- which is sad because the slight hints of the cherrywood smoked bacon and peppered egg were actually quite nice.
The Stir: Dunkin' Donuts Big N' Toasty: A New Buttery Indulgence The Stir 2011
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Inside, the cherrywood ticket booth gleamed under soft lighting, and I saw that the entire lobby was finished.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Kit pushed Fancy in front of the small cherrywood box with a round lens on the front that sat atop a brass stand.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Inside, the cherrywood ticket booth gleamed under soft lighting, and I saw that the entire lobby was finished.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Kit pushed Fancy in front of the small cherrywood box with a round lens on the front that sat atop a brass stand.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Kit pushed Fancy in front of the small cherrywood box with a round lens on the front that sat atop a brass stand.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Inside, the cherrywood ticket booth gleamed under soft lighting, and I saw that the entire lobby was finished.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
qroqqa commented on the word cherrywood
n. Yes, wood from a cherry tree. I am recording this because I don't think I've seen it fused before. Google has comparatively few hits for "made of cherrywood" as against "made of cherry wood": most uses of the single word seem to be place names.
I can see Mrs Albright, dressed in her best black skirt and percale blouse (she pronounced it 'percal'), bent over before the oval mirror of a cherrywood bureau, tying the velvet ribbons of an antique bonnet under her chin.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album
July 10, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word cherrywood
'You have erred, perhaps,' he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs, and lighting with it the long cherrywood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood . . .
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Copper Beeches'
Serendipity. I'm going to start seeing it everywhere now.
'Clay' = "clay pipe" is OED sense 6. a.
July 21, 2008
yarb commented on the word cherrywood
Nice cite, qroqqa. A quintessentially Holmesian sentence!
July 21, 2008