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- noun Plural form of
mahogany .
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Examples
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With no permanent woman in his life, his oversized house was purely masculine: everything was of dark woods, rich mahoganies, deep cherry; the curtains were thick and heavy, divided between forest green and maroon.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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With no permanent woman in his life, his oversized house was purely masculine: everything was of dark woods, rich mahoganies, deep cherry; the curtains were thick and heavy, divided between forest green and maroon.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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With no permanent woman in his life, his oversized house was purely masculine: everything was of dark woods, rich mahoganies, deep cherry; the curtains were thick and heavy, divided between forest green and maroon.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Among the many trees that grow in the region are false chewsticks, Senegal date palms, East African mahoganies, and African breadfruits.
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The heavy mahoganies remained, but were islands of furniture against faded walls.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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The heavy mahoganies remained, but were islands of furniture against faded walls.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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I was crossing this wide, arid valley, nothing growing but sage and tumbleweed, bronco grass, crested wheat, chaparral, rab bit brush, mahoganies on the mountains, willows in the canyons and chokecherry by the springs.
The Fall 1999
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The old colonial home of my forefathers, with its rare old mahoganies and paintings, which
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1913
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Rather were friends convened to the number of ten or twelve around mahoganies of generous size and space (small enough for talk to fly easily across them), and host and hostess were near enough to their guests to mark their own individuality upon the feast.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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There was genuine girlish pleasure in looking over the stock of old china and linen and ancient mahoganies, in starting a fire in the kitchen stove, and preparing a meal, the written order for which Effie had taken to the grocer and butcher.
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