old prune

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In 1970, Winiarski and some investors purchased an old prune orchard off the Silverado Trail, a few miles north of Napa in what is now known as the Stags Leap District American Viticultural Area.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

There was the story of the venerable battleship California�the "old prune barge"�raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, hit twice but now back at work.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You’ll turn into a wrinkled old prune, and for what? Elim?”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

"Well, Daren, you old prune, what'd you think of the toddle?" asked Helen, as she took a cigarette offered by Swann and tipped it between her red lips.

From The Day of the Beast by Grey, Zane

"Well," said Kent, after Lydia had settled them all comfortably, "I just left Charlie Jackson—poor old prune!"

From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré