mahogany

mahogany englannista suomeksi

1. mahonki

0. Substantiivi

1. mahonki

2. mahonginruskea, mahonginpunainen

mahogany englanniksi

1. (senseid) The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus (taxfmt), mostly used to make furniture. (defdate)

2. (RQ:Allingham China Governess).

3. (senseid) Any of the trees from which such wood comes. (defdate)

4. A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. (defdate)

5. 1792, (w), in Danziger & Brady (eds.), ''Boswell: The Great Biographer'' (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

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).

6. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. (defdate)

7. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

(color panel)

8. A table made from mahogany wood; a table. (defdate)

9. (quote-text)

10. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

11. Made of mahogany.

12. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.