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  • noun Plural form of marmalade.

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Examples

  • Master Janotus, with his hair cut round like a dish a la Caesarine, in his most antique accoutrement liripipionated with a graduate's hood, and having sufficiently antidoted his stomach with oven-marmalades, that is, bread and holy water of the cellar, transported himself to the lodging of Gargantua, driving before him three red-muzzled beadles, and dragging after him five or six artless masters, all thoroughly bedaggled with the mire of the streets.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • The appellation of marmalade is applied to those confitures which are composed of the firmer fruits, as pineapples or the rinds of oranges; whereas jams are made of the more juicy berries, such as strawberries, raspberries, currants, mulberries, &c. Fruit pastes are a kind of marmalades, consisting of the pulp of fruits, first evaporated to a proper consistency, and afterwards boiled with sugar.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The appellation of marmalade is applied to those confitures which are composed of the firmer fruits, as pineapples or the rinds of oranges; whereas jams are made of the more juicy berries, such as strawberries, raspberries, currants, mulberries, &c. Fruit pastes are a kind of marmalades, consisting of the pulp of fruits, first evaporated to a proper consistency, and afterwards boiled with sugar.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Caesarine, in his most antique accoutrement liripipionated with a graduate’s hood, and having sufficiently antidoted his stomach with oven-marmalades, that is, bread and holy water of the cellar, transported himself to the lodging of Gargantua, driving before him three red-muzzled beadles, and dragging after him five or six artless masters, all thoroughly bedaggled with the mire of the streets.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Caesarine, in his most antique accoutrement liripipionated with a graduate’s hood, and having sufficiently antidoted his stomach with oven-marmalades, that is, bread and holy water of the cellar, transported himself to the lodging of Gargantua, driving before him three red-muzzled beadles, and dragging after him five or six artless masters, all thoroughly bedaggled with the mire of the streets.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • We ate things from the back of the refrigerator, long-forgotten things, Harry and David orange marmalades, with the rinds floating inside like insects trapped in amber.

    Richard B. Woodward: We The Animals: Novel Of The Year? Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • We ate things from the back of the refrigerator, long-forgotten things, Harry and David orange marmalades, with the rinds floating inside like insects trapped in amber.

    Richard B. Woodward: We The Animals: Novel Of The Year? Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • The chef also has his own line of homemade fruit jams and marmalades.

    Laura Lippstone: Seeds of Change in Hotel Cuisine Laura Lippstone 2010

  • We ate things from the back of the refrigerator, long-forgotten things, Harry and David orange marmalades, with the rinds floating inside like insects trapped in amber.

    Richard B. Woodward: We The Animals: Novel Of The Year? Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • We ate things from the back of the refrigerator, long-forgotten things, Harry and David orange marmalades, with the rinds floating inside like insects trapped in amber.

    Richard B. Woodward: We The Animals: Novel Of The Year? Richard B. Woodward 2011

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