Mahogany

/məˈhɒɡəni/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
2. (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
3. (countable)(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
4. (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
5. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
6. (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
7. Made of mahogany.
8. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

Example Sentences

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).

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!

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

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?

Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]

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• mahoganies
• mahoganey
• mahoganee
• mahogeney
• mahogeny
• mohogeny
• mohogeney
• mahagony
• mahagoney
• more mahogany
• most mahogany

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