mahogany

From Spanish mahogani, possibly from a Mayan name.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈhɒɡəni/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡəni

mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)

1. (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

   mahogany colour:  

4. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
   • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

     Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany  […]

mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)

1. Made of mahogany.
2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

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