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fruit cocktail

noun

  1. fruit salad consisting of small or diced fruits

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Use it in desserts, like a unique fruit cocktail with pernod, fennel fronds and tarragon for a layered anise flavor.

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It’s in the bright red cherries that dress up a bowl of Del Monte’s fruit cocktail.

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I have this weird thing where I don't love maraschino cherries, and I don't love the texture of the canned pears in a fruit cocktail.

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Then there are its tiny organs, which seem to float within this clear flesh, like a pale fruit cocktail in the weirdest Jell-O salad ever to grace a tree branch.

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A cut-glass serving bowl filled with a combination of canned fruit cocktail augmented with fresh bananas and oranges always graced the table to begin the meal, Boyd said.

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