coromandel

coromandel (plural coromandels)

1. 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.

from the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this material

coromandel m (uncountable)

1. striped ebony (a heavy wood, brown in color with deep black streaks, yielded by a limited number of species in the genus Diospyros).