fumed oak

English

Noun

fumed oak (uncountable)

oak that has been exposed to ammonia fumes to darken its color.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
  […] the lower half of a fumed-oak newel post.

Translations

oak that has been exposed to ammonia fumes

Irish: dair ghalaithe f
Russian: ^{(please verify)} морёный дуб m (morjónyj dub)

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