BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Bird's-eye maple

... and after a comprehensive glance over the little kitchen ell with its simple batterie de cuisine went up the main staircase, and entered the room over the study. Here again was a surprise, for this room was completely furnished in delicate, light bird's-eye maple, fit for a marquise, all dainty lemon-tinted curves. The exquisite bed was framed for a canopy, but lacked it; the coral satin recesses of the dressing-table had faded almost colourless; the chintz of the slender chairs had lost its pattern. An oval cheval glass ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell