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- noun Plural form of
clove .
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Examples
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After the chicken has cooked for 45 minutes, remove the 6 whole cloves from the sauce.
Greek Village Feasting: Chicken Kokkinistos [Πετ’νός (Κόκορας) Κοκκινιστός με Πατάτες] Laurie Constantino 2008
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After the chicken has cooked for 45 minutes, remove the 6 whole cloves from the sauce.
Archive 2008-02-01 Laurie Constantino 2008
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Once head has cooled, remove the cloves from the head and peel away outer skins (this is easiest when the head is completely cooled).
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Some other phytochemicals, particularly those in cloves, rosemary, sage, pepper, and mace, are powerful antioxidants (Lin 1994, Hirasa and Takemasa 1998).
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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The minor premise is this, founded on experimental knowledge -- namely, that the greatest source of profit that has been known in our times, the best proved and the most certain, is this of Maluco and Philipinas, whither come the nations of the north, and all other nations who course over this wide sea of India as far as Maluco, where they find that brown gold that they call cloves, and the white silk of China.
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The cloves are the bud or blossom of the tree before the flower comes; and they must be picked early in time, or else they're not fit for anything.
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The cloves are the buds of the tree gathered before they have had time to blossom.
A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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A bulb, which is planted underground and the main part of medicinal uses, is divided into segments called cloves, and each bulb has 6 to 12 cloves, whose sizes are different according to soil condidtions.
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The only thing left for farmers whose rice harvest is destroyed is to use seeds from relief groups to plant corn, but those living off cash crops such as cloves, vanilla and coffee destroyed by strong coastal winds would be seriously affected.
NGOs Assess Damage After Tropical Cyclone Hits Madagascar 2011
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It's made with some of the ingredients you'd find in the real-food version, such as cloves and lemon peel. $4 at www. lushusa.com.
The skinny on holiday food gifts Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
chained_bear commented on the word cloves
Historical/usage note re: how cloves were used to treat smallpox, on inoculation.
A note about how cloves were packed for trade/long-distance transport can be found on fondaci.
"For cloves in 1496-1498, it has been estimated that the Venetian price was about 100 times what traders paid for them in the Moluccas, which provides a rough picture of the tremendous transport and transfer costs, but also of the profits. The price in Venice, it should be kept in mind, was itself greatly increased when the goods were then brought to northern Europe and sold at retail shops. It is easier to understand the profits of transporting spices from the eastern Mediterranean to Christian Europe. In 1343, Barcelona merchants bought spices in Cyprus and sold them in Barcelona at a 25 percent profit for pepper, 41 percent for cinnamon, and 20 percent for cloves. In the early 15th century Venetians were able to sell cloves for 72 percent more than they had paid for them in the Levant and nutmegs for as much as 400 percent profit.
"These revenues were garnered from a substantial trade, not just from a few small boxes of exotic miscellany. In an average year during the 15th century, Venetian merchants obtained at least 400 tons of pepper from Alexandria and another 104 tons from Beirut. There were occasional opportunities to acquire even greater quantities. In November 1496, on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, four galleys arrived in Venice from Alexandria carrying, according to one estimate, what might have been four million pounds of spices, mostly but not exclusively pepper. Another convoy arrived in the same year, reportedly with another two million pounds, of which about half was pepper."
Some more info on value relative to other spices on sueldos carlines.
December 3, 2016