braziletto
(bræzɪˈlɛtəʊ)
Forms: 7 brasiletta, brazilette, 7–8 brazel(l)etto, 8 brazil(l)etta, 9 brazilletto, 7– brasiletto, 8– braziletto.
[? ad. Sp., Pg. brasilete ‘Jamaica-wood’, dim. of brasil, brazil-(wood).]
One or more species of dyewood, inferior to Brazil-wood, imported from Jamaica and adjacent islands (Cæsalpinia brasiliensis and crista; now generally referred to a distinct genus Peltophorum).
| 1656 Cromwell's Bk. Rates, Woods, Brazeletto or Jamaica wood. 1661 Hickeringill Jamaica 22 Abundant plenty of choice Timber trees and Wood for the Dyer's use, as Fustick, Brasiletta. 1686 Lond. Gaz. No. 2186/1, 12 thousand pounds of Brazilette wood. 1725 Sloane Jamaica II 184 Brasiletto-wood is very like Log-wood..It grows in Jamaica. 1782 P. H. Bruce Mem. xii. 418 Two negroes..at work for their master in the woods, cutting brazilletta. 1789 Act 27 Geo. III, xiii. Sched. s.v. Wood, Brazilletto or Jamaica Wood for dyers. 1868 Treas. Bot. 858 Peltophorum Linnæi, otherwise called Cæsalpinia brasiliensis yields the orange-coloured dyewood..Braziletto-wood. The wood of P. Vogelianum, which is a native of Brazil, is also called Braziletto or Sobrazil. 1884 Miller Plant-n., Cæsalpinia crista, Bahama Braziletto. |