palm-wood

Indiscernible from the ancient mud structure, which resembles a melting sandcastle, the hotel has a calming, spare aesthetic, adorned with carved palm-wood doors and shutters, cylindrical salt lanterns, and striped Bedouin carpets in earth tones.

In Egypt's Desert, an Oasis Blooms Anew 2009

Their porches are easily set aflame, for the doors are made of palm-wood and varnished with bitumen, the very food of fire.

Cyropaedia 2007

The plough used is a rude wooden instrument with a very short single handle, a tolerably well-shaped coulter, and the point formed of a piece of hard palm-wood fastened in with wedges.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Sometimes palm-wood beams jutting out from the walls obliged them to bend their heads.

Salammbo 2003

The female palm alone produces fruit and is cultivated, but the presence or vicinity of the male is required, and in many oriental countries there is a law that those who own a palm-wood must have a certain number of male plants in proportion.

Travels in Morocco 2003

He pulled out from the bottom a palm-wood box lined with red velvet, and from it took out a pair of smart and very expensive pistols.

The Possessed 2003

The pyre stood on palm-wood columns; the space between was piled up with tinder and dry straw.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

It was told me that the pale stem of the cross was cypress, the brown arm cedar, and the other arm of yellow palm-wood, while the piece added at the top, with the title, was of smooth yellow olive-wood.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

The _Aeta_ carries a bamboo lance, a palm-wood bow, and poisoned arrows when out on an expedition.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Vista, where the owner kept cut palm-wood to be used for the launch, besides bananas, pineapples and a small patch of cocoa-plants.

In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange