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boxwood 1. the hard close-grained yellow wood of the box tree, used to make tool handles, small turned or carved articles, etc 2. the box tree |
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He felt his way through the lilacs, along the boxwood hedge, up to the south wing of the Big House, where Miss Nellie d'Arnault practised the piano every morning. "Here, excellency," said Peppino, offering him a little blunt knife and a boxwood fork. The curious child had detached the bag from the goat's neck, had opened it, and had emptied out its contents on the rush matting; it was an alphabet, each letter of which was separately inscribed on a tiny block of boxwood. |
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