apricot

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Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

She gave me like a date, you know, and like a dried apricot, so I ate that.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

It also offers a variety of seeds for black, white, purple, Cleveland and hummingbird sages, as well as apricot mallow, showy penstemon, yarrow, California poppies, caterpillar phacelia and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

On her website, she sells apricot kernels for their "potential health benefits" along with nutritional supplements, and offers information and advice.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

I have the towel over my head, and I’m staring at the apricot fruit bars in my cap on the grass.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner