Obs. Also 6 fernandobuck, 6–7 fernan(d)buck, 8 fernebourge [Corruptly f. Pernambuco, the name of a sea-port in Brazil.] = BRAZIL sb. 1. Also attrib.
1595. Drake’s Voy. (Hakluyt Soc.), 13. In this place was great store of fruite and much fernandobuck.
1598. Florio, Scotano, a red wood called brasill or fernanbucke.
1617. Fynes Moryson, Itin., III. 534. Fernandbuck wood.
1703. T. S., Arts Improv., 28. Of another Staining Red, for Wood. Take Fernebourge, half a Pound, and Rain Water.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 68. Most in Use is the Brazil-Wood, call’d Fernambuck.
1711. Act Encour. Silk Manuf., in Lond. Gaz., No. 6040/7. Brazil or Fernambuck Wood.
