Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wood of the tulip tree.
- noun The irregularly striped, ornamental wood of any of several other trees, especially Dalbergia decipularis of Brazil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wood of the tulip-tree.
- noun One of several other woods, so called from their color and markings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (
Physocalymna floribunda ), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. - noun the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree (
Harpullia pendula ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The striped, variegated
wood of thetulip tree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
- noun the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yates uses renewable birch (sourced from Scandinavia) for his creations as well as tulipwood and ash.
Jolyon Yates’ Beautifully Curving ODEChair and Stingray Stools | Inhabitat 2009
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My private closet is a pale sage green, trimmed in alabaster white, with a delicate painted chaise covered in soft green damask with a beautiful tulipwood desk, and my bedroom is done in pinks and creams.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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My private closet is a pale sage green, trimmed in alabaster white, with a delicate painted chaise covered in soft green damask with a beautiful tulipwood desk, and my bedroom is done in pinks and creams.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Her apartment overlooked the Moscow River but it could have overlooked the Seine, with excellent copies of French antiques in tulipwood veneer and velvet-covered chairs.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010
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The table is made of oak covered with a tulipwood veneer and further decorated with gilt bronze leaves and flowers, along the table legs.
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A porcelain plaque, one of eight set into a tulipwood writing table.
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The desk itself suggests brocade flounces and powdered hair, so exquisitely is it constructed of tulipwood and inlaid with other woods of many colors.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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He planed and sanded boards of a native lumber very like to tulipwood.
Blind Man's Lantern Allen Kim Lang
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"I know my three bowls probably won't buy me a Maloof piece but I could throw in a little cash to even it out," the artist Ed Moulthrop wrote in 1976, offering some foot-wide pine and tulipwood bowls in exchange for a walnut rocking chair.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2011
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"I know my three bowls probably won't buy me a Maloof piece but I could throw in a little cash to even it out," the artist Ed Moulthrop wrote in 1976, offering some foot-wide pine and tulipwood bowls in exchange for a walnut rocking chair.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2011
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