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Answer for the clue "Purple plum ", 6 letters:
damson

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The damson or damson plum ( Prunus domestica subsp. insititia , or sometimes Prunus insititia ), also archaically called the "damascene" is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree. Varieties of insititia are found across Europe, but the ...

Usage examples of damson.

When Gaius was taking his breakfast at the Dolphin in Portus that morning, Caninus had slunk into the brothel opposite, the Damson Flower.

His only similarity to the other two was the color of his skin: a dusky purple like an underripe Damson plum but with more blue.

I achieved two damsons and swapped them fora doublenudge on the flashing Switchmatic.

The best honey and creamiest butter had been conjured up into two more little pots, to spread on her bread with the damsons.

He had to step quickly aside as Georgiana swept in, her midnight blue cloak parting to reveal an exceedingly decollete damson satin gown beneath.

Redcurrant tarts, bilberry scones, plumcakes, latticed apple pies, strawberry flans and damson puddings radiated out into patterns, dotted by bowls of nutcream, meadowcream, Abbeycream, rosecream and buttercup fondant.

Each time he arranged part of the hold more of these parcels appeared: a crate of damson plums in syrup from an old woman in Conshohocken who’d read about their voyage in the newspaper and wanted to contribute her bit.

Pouring honey and water into a gourd, she crushed damsons in it and began shaking up a cordial.

We watched as we ate iced melon and ginger, in which were embedded prawns, and silver carp and damson tart.

But what if he had been caught when he had gone in search of Damson this last time—taken and subverted, made over into a Shadowen?