The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
padauk, padouk, amboyna, Pterocarpus indicus
(noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
Source: WordNet® 3.1
padauk (usually uncountable, plural padauks)
Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus.
The valuable timber of these trees.
• (timber): mukwa, narra
• paduka
Source: Wiktionary
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.