sloe
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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
There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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
Blue-black sloes adhere to—they do not hang on—the blackthorn bushes: in places the boughs are loaded with them.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
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
