fumed

adj

fumed

adj

/fjuːmd/

1

Of wood, treated with ammonia fumes to darken its colour and enhance its grain pattern.

  • A customer interrupted her by coming in, in quest of an overmantel, but when Rita by her blandishments had sold a deplorable example in fumed oak, she was again beset with misgivings about letting that old fool get drunk with a dangerous ascent of the stairs to be faced.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 151:
Derived terms
fumed oak, unfumed

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