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What is a fiddleback?

What is a fiddleback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The brown recluse spider.
  2. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
  3. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
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The cherry chest-on-frame, 1740-1760, comes from Connecticut, while the flanking pair of maple fiddleback chairs was made in the Hudson River valley in the eighteenth century.
In a dozen jerky sentences the owner of the fiddleback told Flandrau of the suspicions of the sheriff.
In maple this is termed tiger maple, or fiddleback, because it is preferred for violin backs.
He has published creative nonfiction and essays in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New Atlantis, the Chronicle Review and the Fiddleback.
Some trees produce spectacularly grained wood in curly, fiddleback, quilt, and bird's eye designs that are treasured by fine furniture makers.
Are fiddleback vestments required for the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass?

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