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mahogany

[muh-hog-uh-nee] / məˈhɒg ə ni /


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Referencing original black-and-white photos, Jackson designed a massive 120-foot-long set, complete with a stage, seating, bleachers and mahogany flooring, to be filled with up to 500 extras.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

He is not sitting at a workbench but at a mahogany table polished to a fare-thee-well and reflecting the sitter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Among the answers: a small ink-stained mahogany desk, an antique light bulb, a brown leather flight suit and a baseball jersey.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

The guitar, a mahogany Gibson SG, was one Iommi said he had owned for a while and used at home.

From BBC Dec. 9, 2025

Inside, the lobby was an intriguing jumble of mahogany and moth-eaten velvet, interspersed with deer heads, calendars from filling stations, and a large collection of Bicentennial commemorative trivets, mounted and hung upon the wall.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Some intense blooms tint the ocean in swirling blues, mahoganies or “red tides” visible from space—psychedelic watercolors of microscopic life on a macroscale.

From Scientific American Jan. 24, 2022

To make up for the dearth of propane gas and kerosene, peasants have slashed away at trees, even mangoes, windbreaks and the mahoganies that shade the coffee crop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period.

From Time Magazine Archive

The furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile" at the beholder.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bread-fruit tree with its broad, scalloped leaves, the showy star-apple, glossy green above deep gold below, mahoganies, oranges, and bananas, all seem to grow wild.

From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton




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