palissandre
English
Noun
palissandre (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of palisander (“rosewood”).
French
Etymology
From Dutch palissander.
Pronunciation
Noun
palissandre m (plural palissandres)
- rosewood
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Ils déjeunaient au coin du feu, sur un petit guéridon incrusté de palissandre.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “palissandre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012