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  • noun Plural form of citron.

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Examples

  • Who makes an after dinner mint shaped like a cylinder with assorted citrons in the center?

    Mint Who | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • At a diner I frequent, they have these fgreat mints that are shaped like cylinders and have citrons in the center.

    Mint Who | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • His two daughters and two sons presented them with divers sorts of sherbet of their own making; besides caymac, heightened with the peels of candied citrons, oranges, lemons, pineapples, pistachio nuts, and Mocha coffee unadulterated with the bad coffee of Batavia or the American islands.

    Don’t Just Do Something–Stand There! | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • A week or so later, a basket with 10 more citrons awaited at her front porch.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • A week or so later, a basket with 10 more citrons awaited at her front porch.

    Citron Odyssey Ayala Sender 2009

  • As early as 1602–03 a writer named François Pyrard reported outbreaks of scurvy on ships bound for the East Indies, and concluded that “there is no better or more certain remedy than oranges or citrons.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • As early as 1602–03 a writer named François Pyrard reported outbreaks of scurvy on ships bound for the East Indies, and concluded that “there is no better or more certain remedy than oranges or citrons.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • I was in the kitchen preparing daurade aux citrons confits when Jacques came into the kitchen to pass on two new table orders.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • I cannot smell an orange but it reminds me of its perfumed woods, and bowers, its olives, citrons, and pomegranates.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • I was in the kitchen preparing daurade aux citrons confits when Jacques came into the kitchen to pass on two new table orders.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

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