mahogeney

Noun

mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)

1. (error-lua-exec, uncountable) The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
   • 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[…].1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
2. (countable, error-lua-exec) Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
3. (countable, error-lua-exec) (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
4. (error-lua-exec, regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
   • William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178
5. (error-lua-exec) A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
   • Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
6. (colloquial, error-lua-exec, obsolete) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
   • 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?1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

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