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  • Coco, my abricot poodle, couldn't have agreed more, nor been happier in our villa, which had its own fenced-in private backyard with a lemon tree and a view of the surrounding mountains; right outside our door was a hiking trail for sunset walks.

    Andrea R. Vaucher: Along for the Ride: Fave Desert Spa Two Bunch Palms Now Invites Pets Andrea R. Vaucher 2011

  • Coco, my abricot poodle, couldn't have agreed more, nor been happier in our villa, which had its own fenced-in private backyard with a lemon tree and a view of the surrounding mountains; right outside our door was a hiking trail for sunset walks.

    Andrea R. Vaucher: Along for the Ride: Fave Desert Spa Two Bunch Palms Now Invites Pets Andrea R. Vaucher 2011

  • The Sloe Gin Ginger Sling $15, is made with Beefeater Gin, Plymouth sloe gin, crème de abricot, Cherry Heering, fresh lime juice, fresh ginger extract, cane syrup and chilled Perrier.

    Sneak In for a Drink 2011

  • I had no idea that abricot was part of a piquant idiom.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Coco, my abricot poodle, couldn't have agreed more, nor been happier in our villa, which had its own fenced-in private backyard with a lemon tree and a view of the surrounding mountains; right outside our door was a hiking trail for sunset walks.

    Andrea R. Vaucher: Along for the Ride: Fave Desert Spa Two Bunch Palms Now Invites Pets Andrea R. Vaucher 2011

  • I had no idea that abricot was part of a piquant idiom.

    Avoir la pêche 2009

  • Etymologies like French abricot via Spanish albaricoque from Arabic al-barquq from Latin praecoquium praecox, coquo show that Spanish also borrows from Arabic, even when the Arabic words are Latin borrowings.

    languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

  • A wall is the best fence, and on the north wall, 'against which the sunne reflects, you shall plant the abricot, verdochio, peache, and damaske plumbe; against the east side the white muskadine grape, the pescod plumbe, and the Emperiale plumbe; against the west, the grafted cherries and the olive tree; and against the south side the almond and the figge tree.'

    A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

  • "And some abricot," said she, helping him to a couple of fine juicy ones.

    Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • The wall of homemade jams - I got the abricot - there was a stick of vanilla inside ... sigh

    paris breakfasts 2009

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