orange-wood

The tienda must have been a decent-sized operation, as it had three barber's chairs, all made from orange-wood, a large mirror, at least twelve brass and silver basins, several decorative wall hangings (guadamaciles de cuero colorado), leather-covered boxes filled with small surgical and shaving tools, plus a large assortment of razors, knives, and lancets.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

An orange-wood stick should always be used to clean the nails.

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

A little orange-wood stick or a piece of ivory will assist you when the skin is inclined to stick close to the nail.

The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans

The same effect -- and better, in fact -- is got by simply pressing back the flesh with the end of an ivory or orange-wood instrument.

The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans

In the room also were Connie Girard and Rose Ransome, who had a bowl of soapsuds and several scissors and orange-wood sticks on the table between them, and were manicuring each other very fastidiously.

The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

The younger girls had old, thin silver napkin rings; their mother's was of orange-wood with "Souvenir of Santa Cruz" painted on it; and

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

"Would you like Martie to sit in Ma's place, Pa?" she asked one morning, when she was folding her napkin neatly into the orange-wood napkin-ring marked "Souvenir of Santa Cruz."

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

He marks them, too, inside, with a pencil or a hatpin, or even an orange-wood stick that you clean your nails with.

While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

When most of the council of war were for a safe and quick return to Portugal, one noble, Pedro de Menezes, a trusted friend of Henry's, struck upon the ground impatiently a stick of orange-wood he had in his hands.

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911

Not even when he asked her one night -- while she worked with buffer and orange-wood stick -- if she believed in love at first sight did she suspect the underlying dynamics, the true inebriating factor of this reform.

The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903