Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
persicot .
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Examples
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At the end of the day, the towns' restaurants, almost all good, offer largely similar menus notable for the prominence of lake fish, a standard being filetti di persico fritti dorati: fillets of perch fried in a light golden batter.
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Mr. Gary, if I come to Denbigh when the peaches are ripe, will you teach me to make persico?
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects, cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season, and all of the best.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Not even the owner knows. (photo by michael persico)
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Not even the owner knows. (photo by michael persico)
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Thinking Positive By Brian James Kirk caption: caption: Street fighter: William Brawner, HIV-positive for 27 years, has transformed a neighborhood warehouse into a refuge for HIV-positive youth. photo/art credit: michael persico caption: ...
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Korma's a switch: Ekta's tasty chicken korma with cashews made the author reconsider his loyalties. (photo by michael persico)
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Not even the owner knows. (photo by michael persico)
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Short City streets: It took Brandon Angel (left) and Barry Evans just one year to make their film. (photo by michael persico)
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Sign language: The name of Brawner's organization is appropriately welcoming. (photo by michael persico)
chained_bear commented on the word persico
"Persico was a cordial flavored with the crushed kernels of peaches, apricots, or nectarines."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
June 7, 2010
sionnach commented on the word persico
persico played a major role in sionnach's misspent youth, when he spent two summers working in the Berlin factory that manufactured and bottled it. It's sickly-sweet; the name derives from Pfirsich, German for peach.
June 11, 2010