marmalade

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He reached for the marmalade, and requested that a bowl of Devonshire cream should be passed along.

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  1. noun A clear, jellylike preserve made from the pulp and rind of fruits, especially citrus fruits.

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  • At one end of the bar there were at least two dozen jars of marmalade, all of them topped with fancy cloth covers. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
  • Grabbed some rolls and marmalade, and vanished into the night We weren't alone right away; Sombra and Gemma followed us, in shadows and bits of starlight, but they didn't talk, so we didn't acknowledge them. —  Vanishing Act
  • They slackened their talk and began smacking their lips over ship-biscuit, marmalade, and tea Still we lay in silence. —  Tramping on Life
  • Bread and butter for her with a pot of marmalade, an egg--at this time of year certainly an egg--for him And tinned peaches Eaten with teaspoons out of saucers," said Gorman, "and they'll enjoy them far more than you did that lobster salad at Scott's I'm sure they will. —  Gossamer 1915
  • Jam and marmalade are the only things we're allowed, except plain cakes Tea on the first afternoon was generally an exciting occasion at St. Chad's. There were so many greetings between old friends, so much news and such various topics to be discussed, that conversation, in a sufficiently subdued undertone, went on very briskly. —  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
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  1. French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada, from marmelo, quince, alteration of Latin melimēlum, a kind of sweet apple, from Greek melimēlon : meli, honey; see melit- in Indo-European roots + mēlon, apple.

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  1. Formerly also marmelade, marmelad, marmelet; = D. G. Danish marmelade = Swedish marmelad, from Old French marmelade, French marmelade = Italian marmellata = Spanish marmelada, from Portuguese marmelada, marmalade, orig. a confection of quinces, from marmelo (= Spanish membrillo), a quince, from Latin melimelum, a quince, from Greek μελίμηλον, a sweet apple, an apple grafted on a quince: see melimele.
 

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/ˈmɑrməleɪd/
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