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bird's-eye maple

noun

Definitions

  1. Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.

    • So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.
    • The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.
    • More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

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