What is "fruitwood"

Usage examples of "fruitwood".

Lathering his face, he looked at his reflection in the mirror of the ornate fruitwood washstand.

Fireplaces of clean-cut white marble held vast arrays of lilies, while bowls of golden roses scented the air from fruitwood side tables.

Ugo had taken his new weapons from out their fitted, fruitwood case to disassemble and reassemble them himself, before finally loading and priming them, then replacing them in their case and locking the case in one of his chests.

It was of the sweetest fruitwood, and it was cut slim-waisted and curled, and it had inlays of mother-of-pearl in the shapes of hearts and roses and twining vines and little mourning doves.

Wooden cherubs on clouds cavort around the velvet cushion in the back, carved in fruitwood and gold-leafed by some French craftsman.

A houseboy or something in a turtleneck and whipcord trousers answered the door of a gray stone house on the edge of the nearby town and showed me into a room paneled in fruitwood with potted plants on the built-in shelves.

At twelve, in the costume of a choirboy, he had lifted a priceless fruitwood Madonna over his head and marched out with a church processional, singing at the top of his lungs.

After placing the tall crystal vase of white roses on an antique fruitwood table in the center of the room, Anne hurried out to the small parlor she used as an office.

Surreptitiously Nicky looked across at the fruitwood table in the center of the room.

Later, in the inn room where he resided, Ugo had taken his new weapons from out their fitted, fruitwood case to disassemble and reassemble them himself, before finally loading and priming them, then replacing them in their case and locking the case in one of his chests.

On either side of the bed, Empire rock crystal lamps sat atop magnificent Louis XV tables, one a graceful fruitwood parquetry with a leather writing surface called a table ecrire, the other a small oval-shaped piece with a drawer originally intended for filmy lingerie and consequently called a table en chiffonnigre.

Small cherry wood tables, a pair of fruitwood tub chairs cushioned in brown, an imposing secretary in Russian birch, a black and white Portuguese needlepoint rug, recessed lighting, bunches of fluffy white chrysanthemums, and an assemblage of both modern and ancient statuary created a portrait of a man appreciative of the past, but not so overawed as to dismiss the accomplishments of the present.

Carlyle, take a long, lavishly perfumed bath, put on her oldest, softest, most familiar peignoir, have a great fruitwood fire-the first of the year-lit in the generous fireplace of her bedroom, and stretch out on the pile of pillows flung down on the carpet.

Above the pale-marble fireplace, a beautiful woman in an equally pale blue-silk ball-gown of an earlier century gazed down serenely on two worn leather club chairs and a small fruitwood table groaning under the weight of a silver coffee service.

The rooms were decorated with fruitwood and toile, his blue and hers pink, which made them laugh.