rosewood

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He discussed woods with him--rosewood, mahogany, walnut, English oak, bird's-eye maple, and the manufactured effects such as ormolu, marquetry, and Boule, or buhl.

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  1. noun Any of various tropical or semitropical leguminous trees of the genera Tipuana, Pterocarpus, or Dalbergia, having hard reddish or dark wood with a strongly marked grain.
  2. noun The wood of any of these trees, used in cabinetwork.

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  • Sitting behind the Presidential desk (rosewood, as it happens, and very nice too) is a man whom later generations will call a polymath, a statesman-philosopher, a true product of the enlightenment. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
  • The rosewood was genuine rosewood, the silk hangings real silk. —  Jade Woman - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 12
  • Or the Danish modern furniture -- rosewood and teak -- that filled domestic spaces along the East Coast throughout the '50s. —  WSJ.com: What's News US
  • Walsh Series 3 systems in rosewood: W5 / W300, W200, W100, MicroTall, —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • THe pieces on back are twenty I counted and awhite or yellow color wood as filler between rosewood, each strip is about half inch wide at its widest the rest narrows as it graduates toward the neck. there are two wide sides that is where the sound plated comes in contact. —  Mandolin Cafe News
 

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