acajou

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For these are rich; and the high solemnities of burial are theirs -- the coffin of acajou, and the triple ringing, and the Cross of Gold to be carried before them as they pass to their long sleep under the palms, -- saluted for the last time by all the population of St. Pierre, standing bareheaded in the sun ....

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  1. A kind of mahogany, the wood of Cedrela fissilis: also applied to the true mahogany and other similar woods. See mahogany.
  2. The fruit of the tree Anacardium occidentale. See cashew-nut, cashew-tree.
  3. A gum or resin extracted from the bark of Anacardium occidentale.

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  • "My furniture," he recorded, "just from Paris, was acajou and white and blue horse-hair. —  Fifth Avenue
  • At St. Domingo, it is considered as a species of _acajou_, [36] and they give it that name. —  Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
  • For these are rich; and the high solemnities of burial are theirs--the coffin of acajou, and the triple ringing, and the Cross of Gold to be carried before them as they pass to their long sleep under the palms,--saluted for the last time by all the population of St. Pierre, standing bareheaded in the sun Is it in times like these, when all the conditions are febrile, that one is most apt to have queer dreams Last night it seemed to me that I saw that Carnival dance again,--the hooded musicians, the fantastic torrent of peaked caps, and the spectral masks, and the swaying of bodies and waving of arms,--but soundless as a passing of smoke. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • For these are rich; and the high solemnities of burial are theirs -- the coffin of acajou, and the triple ringing, and the Cross of Gold to be carried before them as they pass to their long sleep under the palms, -- saluted for the last time by all the population of St. Pierre, standing bareheaded in the sun .... —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • The courbaril, yielding a fine-grained, heavy, chocolate-colored timber; the balata, giving a wood even heavier, denser, and darker; the acajou, producing a rich red wood, with a strong scent of cedar; the bois-de-fer; the bois d'Inde; the superb acomat, -- all used to flourish by tens of thousands upon these volcanic slopes, whose productiveness is eighteen times greater than that of the richest European soil. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
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  1. from French acajou, Italian acagiu, Portuguese acaju, Spanish acayoiba, also caoba, caobana, mahogany; prob. South American
  2. Cf. French noix d'acajou, the cashew-nut, acajou à pommes, the cashew-tree; confused with acajou, but a different word, English properly cashew: see cashew.
 

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