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sloe
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synonyms: Prunus spinosa ???
tags: [botany] [culinary]
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Definition:the small, edible fruit of the wild blackthorn tree, used in making sloe gin
photo: by Martin Olsson, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=337699
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She ran to the familiar ravine and hid herself there among the sloe-trees, so that she might see no one and be seen by no one.
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories.
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Neither was the hair of this brute of a red colour (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe,
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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She still imagined kissing him, sloe-eyed and thick-lipped Odein.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah (2013)
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Full small y-pulled were her browes two,
And they were bent, and black as any sloe.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale (1400)
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