What is "citrons"

Usage examples of "citrons".

Then there were citrons and wild pomegranates and a score of other arborescent plants, all testifying to the fertility of this plateau of Central Africa.

Galileo regularly sent the best of the citrons to Suor Maria Celeste, who would seed, soak, dry, and sweeten them over a period of several days to prepare his favorite confection.

It's more the yellow of a buttercup made of gold and pavé citrons by Carl Fabergé.

The carnival rides thrash the air around us, diamond-white, emerald-green, ruby-red lights, turquoise and sapphire-blue lights, the yellow of citrons, the orange of honey amber.

Another is entrusted with the digging of your garden, he eats your citrons and your pistachios, and treats us like negroes.

Consider: had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for love of Mistress Cunégonde—had you not come under the Inquisition—had you not travelled over America on foot—had you not run the Baron through the body—had you not lost your sheep from the good country of El Dorado—why, then, you would not now be here, to eat candied citrons and pistachio nuts.

Between all these enclosures are plains and valleys where rice is grown, and there are gardens with many orange-trees, limes, citrons, and radishes (rabaos), and other kinds of garden produce as in Portugal, only not lettuces or cabbages.

Then you have there every evening a fair where they sell many common horses and nags (rocis e semdeiros), and also many citrons, and limes, and oranges, and grapes, and every other kind of garden stuff, and wood.