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Satinwood

noun
1.
West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood.  Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum.
2.
Hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools.
3.
East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood.  Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree.



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"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... hall he had been constrained to unity by a great idea. But not here. And reminiscences of the Canterbury drawing-room had suggested to him that you could mix things. So, using a satinwood suite with tinted marqueterie and old rose upholsterings (he had succumbed to it in the first freshness of his innocence) as a base, he had added Boule cabinets and modern Indian tables in carved open-work to Adams cabinets and Renaissance tables in ebony inlaid ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair
... grate, and a big white and silver rattan chair was drawn cosily before it. There was a girlish dressing-table with its oval mirror draped in dotted muslin; a dainty writing-desk with everything convenient upon it; and in one corner was a low bookcase of white satinwood. On the top of this case lay a card, "With the best wishes of John Bird," and along the front of the upper shelf were painted the words: "Come, tell us a story!" Below this there was a rich array of good things. The Grimms, Laboulaye, and Hans Christian Andersen were all there. Mrs. Ewing's ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... was as surprised and delighted with this as she had been with the other two rooms, perhaps more so, because she reflected, with an immense satisfaction, that it might be her very own. The room was furnished throughout with satinwood; blue china bowls decorated the tops of cabinets; a painted satinwood spinet stood in a corner; the hearth was open and tiled throughout with blue Dutch tiles; the fire burned in a brass brazier which was ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte


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