coromandel

Her handbag went into a Chinese coromandel cabinet inside the front door; in the early days she had left it lying around anywhere, then Delia had objected, explaining that, since the bag held a firearm, she must conceal it.

Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

Too few specimens have been found to even confirm it as a distinct species, which means it's living under a borrowed scientific name - Hoplodactylus stephensi var. coromandel, "the Coromandel version of the Stephen's Island striped gecko" - even though it's clear to experts that it is morphologically and genetically distinct from its Stephen's Island cousin.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

He was alone in his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in his hand a book which he was not reading.

Les Miserables 2008

We had yellow skies, blue nights, and red dawns, forests of coromandel ebony, and lavender misted mornings streaked with marigold.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

We had yellow skies, blue nights, and red dawns, forests of coromandel ebony, and lavender misted mornings streaked with marigold.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

We had yellow skies, blue nights, and red dawns, forests of coromandel ebony, and lavender misted mornings streaked with marigold.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Without looking at her, he walked to the gold-leafed coromandel screen and opened it to reveal the bar.

Heart Of Stone Dailey, Janet 1980

A gold-leaf, coromandel screen opened to reveal a bar.

Heart of Stone Dailey, Janet 1980

Without looking at her, he walked to the gold-leafed coromandel screen and opened it to reveal the bar.

Heart of Stone Dailey, Janet 1980

A gold-leaf, coromandel screen opened to reveal a bar.

Heart Of Stone Dailey, Janet 1980