mahogany

UK /məˈhɒɡəni/ US /məˈhɑɡəni/
noun 5adj 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.

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[…].

In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).

2

Any of the trees from which such wood comes.

3

(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.

4

A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.

William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).

Next day, the fish was 'scrowled' on a gridiron over the fire and eaten with 'mahogany', a powerful mixture of black treacle and gin, a favourite tipple of Cornish fishermen for keeping out the cold!

5

A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.

Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

adj

1

Made of mahogany.

2

Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

name

1

A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.

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