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Webster 1828 Edition
Mahogany
MAHOG'ANY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
mahogany
mahogany
English
Noun
mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)
- (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
- (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
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- A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
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mahogany colour:
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- A table made from mahogany wood.
- 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
- Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?
- 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
Translations
tropical tree
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wood
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Adjective
mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)
- Made of mahogany.
- Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.