bullace
Americannoun
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the damson.
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the muscadine.
noun
Etymology
Origin of bullace
1300–50; Middle English bolaz; akin to Medieval Latin bolluca, French beloce
Example Sentences
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The wild bullace is, I believe, the ancestor of many of our yellow plums.
From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond
The plum ideal is the true nature of the plum, but is not the true nature of the bullace.
From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond
Scuppernong, skup′ėr-nong, n. a cultivated variety of the muscadine, bullace, or southern fox-grape of the United States.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
As the bullace ideal is to the plum ideal, so is the ideal of English rusticity to the ideal of human nature.
From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond
You may put in ripe currants, apricots, small plums, damsons, or white bullace, when in season; but with fruit it will require boiling half an hour longer.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
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