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Pernambuco|pɜːnæmˈbuːkəʊ|
Also 6 fernandobuck, 6–7 fernan(d)buck, 8 fernambu(c)k, fernebourge.
The name of a state in Brazil, used attrib. and absol. to designate the hard, reddish timber of the tree Cæsalpinia echinata, of the family Leguminosæ, which is used for dyeing as well as decorative woodwork. Cf. Brazil1 1.
1595Drake's Voy. (Hakluyt Soc.) 13 In this place was great store of fruite and much fernandobuck. 1598Florio, Scotano, a red wood called brasill or fernanbucke. 1617Fynes Moryson Itin. iii. 534 Fernandbuck wood. 1703T. S. Art's Improv. 28 [To stain wood red] Take Fernebourge, half a Pound, and Rain Water. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 68 Most in Use is the Brazil-Wood, call'd Fernambuck. 1722Act Encour. Silk Manuf. in Lond. Gaz. No. 6040/7 Brazil or Fernambuck Wood. 1794H. Barham Hortus Americanus 23 The true Brasil is called Pernambuca, being the place from whence they come in Brasil. 1829C. Sealsfield Tokeah II. 124 The carriage whirled along the levee, through oyster and orange shops; mountains of Pernambuco logs and bricks. 1870J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce ii. 219 Brazil wood is imported principally from Pernambuco, and is also known by the name of Fernambuk wood in allusion to the place of importation. 1902G. S. Boulger Wood ii. 271 Peach⁓wood (Cæsalpinia echinata Lam: Order Leguminosæ). Central and South America. Known also as ‘Lima, Nicaragua or Pernambuco-wood’. 1920A. L. Howard Man. Timbers of World 40 Used as a dye-wood..there is nothing that will yield the same result as the Pernambuco or brazil-wood. 1943Record & Hess Timbers of New World 275/2 The principal foreign demand for the timber at present is..for the manufacture of violin bows and in this trade it is known as Pernambuco, taking its name from the Brazilian state where the best grades originate. 1976Early Music Oct. 521/1 (Advt.), Suppliers of wood for stringed and wind instruments: Poplar, Lime, Maple, Fruitwood, Ebony, Box, Rosewood, Walnut, Beech, Holly, Oak, Ash, Mahogany... African Blackwood and Pernambuco. |