Mahoganyname

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  A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.

mahoganynoun/məˈhɒɡəni/

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

  • 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).
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  Any of the trees from which such wood comes.

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  (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.

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  regionalA Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.

  • 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!
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  A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.

  • Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.
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  obsoleteA table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.

  • 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 […]

mahoganyadj/məˈhɒɡəni/

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  Made of mahogany.

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  Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.