sloe

If sloe berries aren’t readily available, you can substitute damsons, a similar fruit, or experiment with any fruits and a base of gin or even vodka.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

It’s a wonderfully economic performance, all slouch and sloe eyes, offering a moral thermometer of the fallen world through which Raylan moves via Olyphant’s sly repertoire of expressions: grin, smirk, smile, hard stare, blank bemusement.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

Right now, I’m in a park, surrounded by new white sloe blossom, listening to Eden and trying not to let anyone see the faces I’m pulling.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019

It is believed that Suffolk Pink dates back to the 14th Century and other natural ingredients such as elderberries, blackthorn or sloe juice were also added to create the colour.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2018

He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack?

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

This applies to lots of fruits that are the same colour including damsons, sloes and juniper berries.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

When you forage for sloes, Horning says, feel the berries for ripeness, but also look for a yeast powder on the berry’s core, “a telltale sign that the fruit’s ripe.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

Ripening hedge fruits include sloes, hips and haws; it has been a splendid year for acorns, and among the myriad autumn fungi, look out for ceps, or penny-buns as they are sometimes known.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2020

Plentiful in the West the fruit of the apple-tree, Many kings and princes; Plentiful are luxurious sloes, Plentiful oak-woods of noble mast.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes.

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë