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Meanings of mahogany in anglès
Any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish.
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Examples for "sepia"
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In those increasingly sepia-tinged days before VAR it would have undoubtedly stood.
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Grey was a charming study in sepia. The description was not inapt.
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Then I switched to the Create tab and added a sepia tone.
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Novocane was an indie-film love story, all sepia tones and drugged anti-romance.
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Octan casually curved a sepia wing-tip, altering his course by a degree.
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An oblong box painted reddish brown lay on the seat beside her.
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His skin, normally gray and rich purple, had darkened to reddish brown.
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Remember, only pick the pods that are turning a dark reddish brown.
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The door was a reddish brown that reminded Gurney of dried blood.
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Its skin was a mottled reddish brown, the color of dried blood.
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The middle trees have a thin wash of burnt sienna and gamboge.
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The picture painted in burnt sienna is relieved by a grateful flash of green.
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Greens and yellows passed into carmine, purple, and burnt sienna.
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Nearer trees a wash of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge.
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Trees, distant.-Ultramarine ,witha wash of indigo, gamboge, and burnt sienna, tinted with gray.
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White arsenic, two ounces; lard, thirteen ounces; corrosive sublimate, one-fourth ounce; venetian red, one-fourth ounce.
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Mix venetian red with quite thick arabic muscilage, making it into a putty, and press this well into the cracks of mahogany before finishing.
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Colors: Scarlet; Red; Venetian Red; Bright Red, rayed azure or emerald.
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The Four Scales for Mars: Red; Venetian Red; Bright Red, rayed Azure or Emerald.
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The Four Scales for Mars: Scarlet; Red; Venetian Red; Bright Red, rayed Azure or Emerald.
Usage of mahogany in anglès
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The seats in the parterre were mahogany chairs upholstered in blue damask.
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The large beds were mahogany with great square pillars at each corner.
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Ivan skipped the light across the oak water casks and mahogany planking.
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Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
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The bed was large, of mahogany, in the shape of a boat.
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The houses have stone fronts, mahogany sash windows and natural slate roofs.
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You will find him in a mahogany office on the sixth floor.
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Two candles were burning in pewter sticks on the bare mahogany table.
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The furniture followed the universal fashion of horse-hair, mahogany, and wool embroidery.
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He was habited, somewhat uniquely, in a new and handsome mahogany coffin.
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The railing of the altar was of carved mahogany, rich and beautiful.
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I ask a woodworker, who is in a shop making mahogany secretaries.
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There was a hall paneled in white wood and with mahogany doors.
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You waited in a drawing-room stuffed with fragile mahogany and sea-green plush.
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It was hard to imagine her friend Britt in that mahogany box.
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A moment later the land agent stood before the wide mahogany desk.
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