harewood

[ hair-wood ]

noun

1. the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of harewood¹

1655–65; variant of obsolete airewood, equivalent to obsolete aire harewood (< dialectal German Ähre ≪ Vulgar Latin *acre, Latin acer maple) + wood ¹

Example Sentences

But the most important casualty was CIA Director David Estes (David Harewood).

From The Daily Beast

Philip Michael Thomas played Stix, and Dorian Harewood played Levi.

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This petition was presented on the 17th of April, by the Earl of Harewood, and the prayer of their petition was granted.

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He afterwards contracted for making five miles of road between Harrogate and Harewood Bridge, and received for it £1200.

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It skirts Harewood Forest, and takes in a tributary below Wherwell.

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Beyond that lay a paddock, while in the distance the beautiful Harewood Forest showed away upon the skyline.

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Lady Jane Ellice says that at Harewood there is one of the most splendid collections of china—quantities of it.

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