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- noun Plural form of
greening .
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Examples
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Select firm round greenings, pare neatly and cut in halves; place in a shallow stewpan with sufficient boiling water to cover them and a cup of sugar to every six apples.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Back of the house was an orchard, and here pippins, long-stems, flyers, greenings, and seek-no-furthers, grew side by side.
Frank and Fanny Mrs. Clara Moreton
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Take half a dozen good, tart cooking apples -- greenings or Newtown pippins; peel, cut in slices about a quarter of an inch thick and core them.
The Golden Age Cook Book Henrietta Latham Dwight
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~GREEN TOMATO MINCE~ -- To two quarts chopped apples, greenings are best, allow two quarts chopped green tomatoes, one pound each seeded raisins and cleaned currants, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful ground cloves, six cups granulated sugar and a cupful and a half of cider vinegar.
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Simon Lundy led the way to his barn, and there the boys picked out some russets and some greenings.
Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters Ralph Bonehill
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Select firm, round greenings; pare neatly and cut in halves; place in a shallow stewpan with sufficient boiling water to cover them, and a cupful of sugar to every six apples.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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The minute they finished the outdoor work Laddie and Leon began bringing in baskets of apples, golden bellflowers, green pippins, white winter pearmains, Rhode Island greenings, and striped rambos all covered with hoarfrost, yet not frozen, and so full of juice you had to bite into them carefully or they dripped and offended mother.
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Captain Dimick brought a bag of apples, greenings, some he had kept in the cellar over winter.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The minute they finished the outdoor work Laddie and Leon began bringing in baskets of apples, golden bellflowers, green pippins, white winter pearmains, Rhode Island greenings, and striped rambos all covered with hoarfrost, yet not frozen, and so full of juice you had to bite into them carefully or they dripped and offended mother.
Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Those late ripeners are the winter varieties, -- the Rhode Island greenings or swaars of their kind.
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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