white mahogany

American  

noun

1. an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.

2. the hard, heavy wood of this tree, used for making railroad ties, posts, etc.

3. primavera.

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Example Sentences

All the white mahogany wood paneling had to be taken off and refurbished.

From Washington Times

Stepping through the heavy white mahogany door of the Cooler Center is like traveling back in time to the mid-1950s.

From Washington Times

Then the Katzensteins moved from a simplex to a complex apartment, furnished the dining-room in Flemish oak and the bedroom in white mahogany; Mrs. Katzenstein telephoned to her fancy grocer's for artichokes instead of buying cabbages from the street-vender, and Mr. Katzenstein walked with the four fingers of each hand thrust into the distended front pockets of his trousers.

From Project Gutenberg

I’ve just seen the architect’s plans,—four open front cottages grouped around an administration infirmary, the superintendent’s office to be finished in white mahogany and gold, and the directors’ room in Circassian walnut, with a stucco frieze after della Robbia.

From Project Gutenberg

We occupied the spacious after-cabins, exquisitely paneled in white mahogany, which had been used by the Austrian archduchesses and whose furnishings still bore the imperial crown, and our breakfasts were served under the whitePg 86 awnings stretched over the after-deck, where, lounging in the grateful shade, we could look out across the harbor, dotted with the gaudy sails of fishing craft and bordered by the walls and gardens of the quaint old city, to the islands of Arbe and Pago, rising, like huge, uncut emeralds, from the lazy southern sea.

From Project Gutenberg