Etymology
Origin of snakewood
Example Sentences
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His aunt said goodbye to him and presented Henry Moeller with an umbrella of purple silk with a carved snakewood handle.
From Time Magazine Archive
And for the lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being made, like the others in this figure, of that unyielding material snakewood, the experiment, though in the right direction, cannot be said to have been successful.
From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry
Of the imported “natural” sticks, the principal are olive, ebony, furze, snakewood, pimento, cinnamon, partridge, and bamboo.
From Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls by Anonymous
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