Crossword clues for damson
damson
- Plum variety
- Sweet dark purple plum
- Dark blue fruit
- Mother and child making some jam
- Mother and child preparing fruit
- Emmy award winning actor eats small fruit
- Wanderer returns bearing small fruit
- Small plum
- Fruit-tree thus gripped by curse
- Fruit produced by mother and offspring
- Fruit for parent and child
- Plumlike fruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Damascene \Dam"as*cene\ (d[a^]m"as*s[=e]n), n. A kind of plum, now called damson. See Damson.
Damask \Dam"ask\, a.
Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
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Having the color of the damask rose.
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek.
--Shak.Damask color, a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose.
Damask plum, a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson.
Damask rose (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose ( Rosa damascena) from Damascus. ``Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years.''
--Bacon.Damask steel, or Damascus steel, steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.
Wiktionary
a. The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple. n. 1 A subspecies of plum tree, (taxlink Prunus domestica subsp. insititia species noshow=1), native to Eurasia. 2 The edible fruit of this tree.
WordNet
n. sweet dark purple plum [syn: damson plum]
Wikipedia
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 name "damson" is derived from and most commonly applied to forms which are native to Great Britain. Damsons are relatively small plum-like fruit with a distinctive, somewhat astringent taste, and are widely used for culinary purposes, particularly in fruit preserves or jam.
In South and Southeast Asia, the term "damson plum" sometimes refers to Jambul, the fruit from a tree in the Myrtaceae family. The name "mountain damson" or "bitter damson" was also formerly applied in Jamaica to the tree Simarouba amara.
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?