coromandel
See also: Coromandel
English
Noun
coromandel (countable and uncountable, plural coromandels)
- Calamander.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, "My Son's Wife", in A Diversity of Creatures:
- Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, "My Son's Wife", in A Diversity of Creatures:
Dutch
Etymology
from the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this material
Noun
coromandel m (uncountable)
- striped ebony (a heavy wood, brown in color with deep black streaks, yielded by a limited number of species in the genus Diospyros).