sloe

Their plum-like, inky blue-purple sloe berries became synonymous with the English countryside.

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

She had to entice him, as she had enticed the child in bygone days, the sweet little child with the eyes like sloes that was to run from the chair to the next halting-place.

From The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

Absorption from the mucous membrane is increased by applying to its surface the austere acids, as of vitriol, lemon-juice, crab-juice, sloes.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin