Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
apricot .
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Examples
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Take a quart of the best brandy, and about a jill of apricock kernels, blanch and bruise them in a mortar, with a spoonful or two of brandy, so put them into a large bottle with your brandy; put to it four ounces of loaf sugar, let it stand till you think it has got the taste of the kernels, then pour it out and put in a little more brandy if you please.
English Housewifery 2004
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The English, though they take their word from the French, at first called it _abricock_, then _apricock_ (restoring the _p_), and lastly, with the French termination, _apricot_.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word apricock
The precocious fruit.
December 23, 2009