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

But the King seemed to enjoy some of the less usual beers on offer, including one with an apricot flavour.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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

He and my father talked about the day’s work while the daughters left to make tea and a breakfast of fried eggs, sour yogurt, apricot jam, and sesame butter.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat