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- noun Plural form of
filbert .
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Examples
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The nuts, sometimes called filberts, were also sold in mixed-nut packages.
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For ordinary purposes the nuts sold commercially, whether imported or grown in this country, are called filberts while those nuts which may be found growing prolifically in woodlands and pastures over almost the whole United States but which are not to be found on the market are called hazelnuts.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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I must digress and say that hazelnuts, also called filberts, are absolutely my most favorite nut, so it's no wonder that I adore these Ferrero Rocher confections!
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I must digress and say that hazelnuts, also called filberts, are absolutely my most favorite nut, so it's no wonder that I adore these Ferrero Rocher confections!
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Organic raw hazelnuts, also known as filberts, that were sold in bulk in its stores in California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Blisstree 2009
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Try to buy shelled hazelnuts (also called filberts) with the brown, papery skins removed as well.
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THE TREASURER: Inasmuch as we have in Rochester, New York, an orchard of filberts which is beginning to bear real crops -- and that is something none of us has ever seen -- if Rochester would like to have us come I move that we go there next year.
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Several other kinds of nut trees are being grown by Mr. Bungart, such as filberts, Chinese chestnuts, and Crath Persian walnuts.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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On the other coast, David Briggs of Xocolatl de David (6) in Portland, Ore., takes his state's prized, roasted filberts (procured from Freddy Guys Hazelnuts in Monmouth) and tumbles them together in a candy panner with an Ecuadorian 72% chocolate and black truffle salt, courtesy of Seattle vendor Ritrovo ($12 a bag, xocolatldedavid.com ).
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I love this recipe. pretty sure this will single handedly kill my diet. sometimes you can find hazelnuts under the name filberts. its a nut with an identity crisis
brtom commented on the word filberts
-- You can tell Barabbas from me, Ben Dollard said, that he can put that writ where Jacko put the nuts.
He led Father Cowley boldly forward linked to his bulk.
-- Filberts I believe they were, Mr Dedalus said, as he dropped his glasses on his coatfront, following them.
Joyce, Ulysses, 10
January 7, 2007