nogarote

Updated: August 15, 2026

The sea brings in there all sorts of wreckage, and the house is beautifully finished with mahogany and other rare woods, just as I remember finding in a noble mansion in South Wales, near a dangerous head-land, some magnificent doors and wainscotings made of that most beautiful of the Central American woods, nogarote, which I never saw in the United States, excepting in a superb specimen of it sent home by myself from Corinto.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)