Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The hard, black-and-brown-striped wood of certain tropical Asian trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. quaesita of Sri Lanka, used for making furniture.
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Etymologies
- Probably from Dutch kalamanderhout, calamander wood, perhaps from alteration of Coromandel Coast . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The department of manufactures was represented by massive furniture in calamander, ebony, and satinwood, carved with the most elaborate devices, dainty laces made by the nimble fingers of village women, beautiful productions on tortoise shell and gold, heavily embroidered cloths of gold, and a large collection of the various curios for which the East is famous, besides a display of tanned hides and jewelry of exceptional merit.”
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
“The country abounds in tropical fruits, such as pineapples, plantains, oranges, and mangoes and in such trees as ebony, satin, calamander, and ironwood.”
“Here also, equally immovable, the calamander is growing, neglected and unknown.”
“Can it be that, like the calamander, or Coromandel-wood, which is rapidly approaching extinction, sandal-wood was extirpated from the island by injudicious cutting, unaccompanied by any precautions for the reproduction of the tree?] [Footnote 2: _Nan-shè_, b.lxxviii. p. 13.] [Footnote 3: _Suh-Hung keën-luh_, b.xlii. p. 52.]”
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stripes and bands
variegated armadillos and other asundry bands and stripes
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
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Alexander the gander
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Dutchly things
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