damson

• The word “dumb” is an archaic synonym for “damson,” and the same rule would apply between it and the plum, as with the cherry and the merry. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• She was everywhere he turned: the two braids she'd taken to wearing inclined over a sail as Pudge taught her a difficult stitch; reading aloud from one of Defoe's novels, his men gathered around her like children around their mother's skirts; leaning against the forward rail at twilight, gazing pensively across the billows as the damson-tinted sea doused the flaming ball of the sun. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
• It held an opalescent riot of color: madder, damson, ochre, cerulean and nacre. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• Not a word she says; And I can only wonder how much hereafter She will remember, with that bitter scent, Of garden rows, and ancient damson-trees Topping a hedge, a bent path to a door, A low thick bush beside the door, and me Forbidding her to pick As for myself, Where first I met the bitter scent is lost. —  Last Poems
• And all the while Penny was imagining the circumstances under which Mr. Freely would make her an offer: perhaps down by the row of damson-trees, when they were in the garden before tea; perhaps by letter--in which case, how would the letter begin? —  Brother Jacob

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