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- noun Plural form of
corinth .
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Examples
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“Had I not best go out and order raisins and corinths for the wedding-cake?”
The Virginians 2006
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Their likeness in shape and size and general appearance to our own currants, working together with the ignorance of the great majority of English people about any such place as Corinth, soon brought the name ‘corinths’ into
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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"Had I not best go out and order raisins and corinths for the wedding-cake?"
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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We found an herbe growing vpon the rocks whose fruit was sweet, full of red iuice, and the ripe ones were like corinths.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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