mahogany

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam മഹാഗണി (mahāgaṇi).

noun

1. (uncountable) The 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
2. (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
3. (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
4. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
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5. (obsolete, colloquial) 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

adj

1. Made of mahogany.
2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.