Pronunciations
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/fjuːmd/
Adjective
Of wood, treated with ammonia fumes to darken its colour and enhance its grain pattern.
Usage- not-comparable
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More examples (1)
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.
Adjective
(of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes
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fumed oak