lady apple

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noun

a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.

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Origin of lady apple

First recorded in 1810–20

Words nearby lady apple

Ladon, ladrone, Ladrone Islands, lad's love, lady, lady apple, Lady Baltimore cake, ladybeetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle, Lady Bountiful

How to use lady apple in a sentence

Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
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I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
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Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
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Lady Rose is also rather subdued in the premiere, which is a pity.
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The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
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The young lady, hearing his step, turned round and stood on the stair, confronting him fiercely.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
See the ease and grace of the lady in the sacque, who sits on the bank there, under the myrtles, with the guitar on her lap!
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation.
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