bullace

American  

[bool-is] / ˈbʊl ɪs /

noun

1. the damson.

2. the muscadine.

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bullace British  

/ ˈbʊlɪs /

noun

1. a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia ), of which the damson is the cultivated form See also plum 1

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Etymology

Origin of bullace

1300–50; Middle English bolaz; akin to Medieval Latin bolluca, French beloce

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Example Sentences

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bullace

Pineapples, peaches, grapes, figs, medlars, all sorts of fine apples and pears, white plums, damsons, white and black bullace, quinces, filberts, walnuts, and chesnuts.

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 Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

But whereas the plum ideal cannot be realised in any appreciable degree by the individual bullace, the human ideal can be realised in a quite appreciable degree by the individual English rustic.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes

They went on again and found a wild bullace.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies

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 Edmond Holmes

There they also found grapes so prodigiously large, that they seemed more like bullace than grapes.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

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