Definitions
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- noun fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork
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Examples
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Noreen pushed at my cuticles with an orangewood stick.
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A manicurist should use cuticle softening oil after a warm soak, then gently ease them back with an orangewood stick.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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A manicurist should use cuticle softening oil after a warm soak, then gently ease them back with an orangewood stick.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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Claudia simply laughed as she gently pushed back her cuticles with an orangewood stick she produced from her pocket.
Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge David Bergantino 2003
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A manicurist should use cuticle softening oil after a warm soak, then gently ease them back with an orangewood stick.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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They demand coaxing with a bristle brush and an orangewood stick.
Buttered Side Down 1911
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He had a little fancy for the sea as well, and liked to pull an oar over to Capri on occasion, by which he could earn a few francs easier than he could saw them out of the orangewood.
Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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He had a little fancy for the sea as well, and liked to pull an oar over to Capri on occasion, by which he could earn a few francs easier than he could saw them out of the orangewood.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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And keep your orangewood stick handy; if you wipe off a mistake as soon as you make it, you won’t have to go over it later with remover.
Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010
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