limewood

American  

[lahym-wood] / ˈlaɪmˌwʊd /

noun

1. the wood of a linden.

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Etymology

Origin of limewood

First recorded in 1725–35; lime ³ + wood ¹

Example Sentences

After a demanding program that included a gasp-inducing repair of the two cracking, 500-year-old limewood panels, Getty senior conservator Ulrich Birkmaier and his team stabilized the paintings, while bringing the images back to something close to what they likely were when they left the artist’s big and busy workshop in Wittenberg, about 70 miles southwest of Berlin, in the 16th century.

From Los Angeles Times

Micheal McMonagle, of Limewood Street in Londonderry, failed to appear at Bishop Street courthouse in the city on Wednesday.

From BBC

A limewood tree drawn by Christen Kobke is a quivering nervous system of tangled lines so fine that they seem barely to touch down on paper.

From New York Times

The figures are hand-carved from limewood or moulded in resin.

From The Guardian

The delicately carved limewood panelling around the walls had been contrived in such a way that there were no sharp corners anywhere in the room, only curves.

From The New Yorker