tangerine
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The papers took pains to note that Wyman came to court “hatless, her hair in a pageboy bob. She wore a tangerine gabardine shirt-maker dress.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024
In Johnson’s buoyant painting a dapper Harlem couple steps out for a stroll beneath a tangerine slice of a moon.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024
If their thoughts do turn to cricket, uppermost in England minds should be the problem of Bumrah, whose staccato action and educated fingers could probably swing a tangerine around corners.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024
For reference, I generally use the majority of zest scraped from one whole satsuma, which is about the size of a tangerine.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
He wanted to show me Manderley....My mind ran riot then, figures came before me and picture after picture—and all the while he ate his tangerine, giving me a piece now and then, and watching me.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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