Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of rosewood and the similar violet-wood and jacaranda-wood. See
Jacaranda and rosewood.
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Examples
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Rakotoarisoa said that “after just a few days, over a thousand pieces of precious wood have been seized”, including highly lucrative but slow-growing rosewood and palisander logs.
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I pick up the pepper and bergamot, the palisander and sandalwood dominate the incense, not a lot of jasmine or orris here, and a synthetic fruit note which jars just a little.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh: The Gifts of the Magi in Perfumery Marina Geigert 2007
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I pick up the pepper and bergamot, the palisander and sandalwood dominate the incense, not a lot of jasmine or orris here, and a synthetic fruit note which jars just a little.
Archive 2007-12-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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The walls all around were wainscoted with palisander.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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This table was of palisander wood and supported by the semblance of a swan.
The Poor Plutocrats M��r J��kai 1864
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The French have given the name jacaranda to rose-wood, under the idea that the plant called jacaranda by the Brazilians yields it, which is not the case; "the same word has perhaps been the origin of palisander -- palixander, badly written."
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Ebony concert fingerboard with 29 freets under E. - type Classico C has round bottom with 31 palisander channelled ribs; concert ebony fingerboard with 29 frets under E. - type Classico B has round bottom with 31 white maple not channelled; concert ebony fingerboard with 29 frets under E. - type Classico A has an engraved neck with: a) inside machine-head;
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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