palmwood

I had an unexpected assignment to an area that was once an ancient seabed; on a small uplifted mesa I found carved into a perified palmwood log the words:

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An ancient Roman leg fragment shares shelf space with a Henry Moore sculpture, a '50s palmwood Printz desk faces a 17th-century painting by Willem de Vos and the walls are wrapped in an ebonized oak veneer checkerboard.

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The homes of the poorer people are mere huts generally built of palmwood and covered with palm-thatch.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

From his father he had inherited a house in Zanzibar, a mansion, indeed, of coraline limestone fitted with doors of palmwood elegantly carved.

Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

Then in the cool of the night they walked to the café, where cobwebs hung from the palmwood rafters, and the raised hearth glowed.

Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

It was long -- six feet or more, with a slender, reed shaft and a needle-like point of tough palmwood fitted and glued into the stem.

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In recompense whereof they captured him at the patriarchal age of 132, or thereabouts, and bound him with ropes between two flat boards of palmwood.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

Beyond the wall of this palm garden, at whose foot was a furrow full of stagnant brownish-yellow water, lay a handful of wretched earthen hovels, with flat roofs of palmwood and low wooden doors.

The Desert Drum 1905 Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Here, upon a deal table, was set forth my repast; the foods I had brought with me, and a red Arab soup served in a gigantic bowl of palmwood.

The Desert Drum 1905 Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

The gardeners lay upon the earth divans under the palmwood roofs, and slept.

Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905 Robert Smythe Hichens 1907