Pernambuco

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Proper noun

1. A state of Northeast Region, Brazil

Translations

• French: Pernambouc
• Portuguese: Pernambuco

Noun

Pernambuco (uncountable)

1. A hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.
   • 1998, Strad, July:

     When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 198:

     [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.

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