sloe

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Han't I currycombed thy carcass till it was as sleek as a sloe, and cherished thee as the apple of mine eye?

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  1. noun See blackthorn.
  2. noun Either of two eastern North American plum trees or shrubs, Prunus alleghaniensis, having dark purple fruit, or P. americana, having yellow or red fruit.
  3. noun The tart plumlike fruit of either of these plants.

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  • A secretary might not command the outrageous price of a handsome driver or a sloe-eyed dancing girl, but Caenis, trained in the imperial school and with such good Greek, was still a prize. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
  • I myself beg Lewis 'forgiveness for the current plan to take it all back; both Lewis and I know that these sloe-eyed lotte fop Democrats like Kerry and Reid are nothing like the Democrats who took a head-banging and more just to be heard, let alone established as a decent wage-earning middle class. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • Even as the looking glass shatters at the end of the piece, the tall, sloe-eyed brunettes maintain their twinkly smiles. —  OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
  • Lymelife, a dark prism of suburban life about young people from Long Island (more sloe-eyed Culkins-two of them, in fact) in a hurry to get out. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • She must have been in her late teens the first time we met, a dusky, sloe-eyed girl with a silver nosering she frequently paused to touch; I was four. —  IndieQuill
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  1. Middle English slo, from Old English slā; see sleiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English slo, plural slon, slan (later English dial. slan), from Anglo-Saxon slā, in comp. slāh-, slāg-, slāgh- (see sloe-thorn), plural slān; = Middle Dutch sleeu, Dutch slee = Middle Low German slē, Low German slee = Old High German slēha, Middle High German slēhe, German schlehe = Swedish slån = Danish slaaen (cf. Norwegian slaapa), sloe; cf. OBulg, Servian Russian sliva = Bohemian slíva = Polish sliwa = Lithuanian slīva = Old Prussian sliwaytos, a plum; prob. so named from its tartness; cf. Middle Dutch sleeuw, slee, sharp, tart, same as D. sleeuw = English slow: see slow.
 

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