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- noun Alternative spelling of
lychee .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When dried they're often referred to as litchi nuts because they resemble a nut - the shell turns a dark reddish brown and the flesh becomes brown and crisp.
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His dessert was somewhat disappointing: Hotchcha, kalamanso soda with habañero, and some lime-marinated Gloria Farms strawberries with litchi foam.
Jay Weston: Benefit to Help Eliminate Child Hunger at Montage Laguna Beach Hotel Jay Weston 2011
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His dessert was somewhat disappointing: Hotchcha, kalamanso soda with habañero, and some lime-marinated Gloria Farms strawberries with litchi foam.
Jay Weston: Benefit to Help Eliminate Child Hunger at Montage Laguna Beach Hotel Jay Weston 2011
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The Gewurztraminer combined the classic litchi flavor of the grape with admirable depth and restraint.
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The elegant Champagne serves up a super-sweet litchi Mojito (US$9. 40) in an elegant setting.
After Hours: Taipei 2010
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There are lime zest and litchi-fruit aromas, which are subtle until it warms up in the glass.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Instead, they are sentenced to a life of subordination: tilling fields, building homes, preparing food, collecting firewood, bearing children, and preparing any item -- from charcoal to litchi fruits for their unfaithful husbands to sell on roadsides -- money that will ultimately end up in the men's empty stomachs in the form of bootleg banana booze.
Summer Rayne Oakes: Where the fire burns: Accounts from Mozambique 2009
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There are lime zest and litchi-fruit aromas, which are subtle until it warms up in the glass.
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Customers can choose from 20 different types of chocolate for the base, paired with unusual truffle fillings, including coconut and litchi or port and Stilton, and decorated with custom design elements — say, violins for a music lover.
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[But] if you open the shell still quivering and slice it, bam, and then pop it in your mouth, it tastes like a litchi.
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