saunders : Idioms & Phrases

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red saunders

  • noun tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
    red sandalwood; red sanders; red sanderswood; Pterocarpus santalinus.
WordNet

saunders-blue

Saun"ders-blue` noun
Etymology
Corrupted fr. F. cendres bleues blue ashes.
Definitions
  1. A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper. Written also sanders-blue.
Webster 1913