单词 | rosewood marble |
释义 | > as lemmasrosewood marble C1. General attributive, as rosewood marble, rosewood oil, rosewood piano, rosewood shelf, rosewood tree, etc. ΚΠ 1740 C. Cock Catal. Dwelling-House, Coach-house, & Stables 9 A fine rose wood chest, with drawers on a frame. 1782 C. Cartwright List Duties Goods Imported 1782 (end matter) p. ii Rosewood Furniture. 1835 E. FitzGerald Let. July (1945) I. 292 I am..inditing of this letter upon that capacious but now battered rosewood desk. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xxx, in Poems (new ed.) II. 71 She left the novel half-uncut Upon the rosewood shelf. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lv. 490 She also left the fire irons,..and the rosewood cottage piano. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 225/1 Rosewood marble, so called from its marking resembling that of rosewood, is extremely hard and of close texture. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 116 Rosewood-oil is sometimes used for adulterating oil of roses. 1874 J. L. Stewart & D. Brandis Forest Flora N.-W. & Central India 148 Dalbergia latifolia.., the Blackwood or Rosewood tree of Southern India. 1916 E. A. G. Glasgow Life & Gabriella i. i. 15 In the corner..there was a rosewood bookcase. 1978 Daily Tel. 6 May 14/8 (advt.) Broadwood overstrung Rosewood piano. 1989 S. B. Hecht & A. Cockburn Fate of Forest iii. 47 The rosewood tree, desired for its aromatic oil,..has virtually disappeared. 2001 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 22 Sept. f2 The wood preservative is made with Oiticica oil (rosewood oil), a vegetable oil that is very thin and has extremely unusual penetrating power. < as lemmas |
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