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n. - Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.

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  • The chair prototype pictured above is made of padauk and aluminum connector plates.
  • The furniture was made of beautiful shiny padauk wood, which is a deep red, sometimes almost shading into black.
  • When my mother entered the sitting room with my father, her mother-in-law was seated at the far end on a formal, carved square padauk chair.
  • Leading up to her on both sides of the room, enhancing the formality, were two symmetrical rows of square, exquisitely carved padauk chairs.
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