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  • noun Plural form of pearmain.

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Examples

  • They looked over the bursting stall, with its boxes and baskets of Kentish pippins, pearmains, lemons, and pomegranates.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • The land around the house was mostly bare and muddy from the construction, but Morris had saved several rows of pippins and pearmains from the orchard that had been there before.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • The land around the house was mostly bare and muddy from the construction, but Morris had saved several rows of pippins and pearmains from the orchard that had been there before.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • The land around the house was mostly bare and muddy from the construction, but Morris had saved several rows of pippins and pearmains from the orchard that had been there before.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • Thus you may do of any curnel'd fruits, as wardens, pippins pears, pearmains, green quodlings, or any good apples, in laid tarts, or cuts.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

  • A wonderful grafted tree that bore two kinds of fruit gave the place a touch of fairyland's magic, and no explanation of the process of grafting ever diminished the awe I felt when I stood under this tree and saw ripe spice apples growing on one limb and green winter pearmains on all the others.

    Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

  • The minute they finished the outdoor work Laddie and Leon began bringing in baskets of apples, golden bellflowers, green pippins, white winter pearmains, Rhode Island greenings, and striped rambos all covered with hoarfrost, yet not frozen, and so full of juice you had to bite into them carefully or they dripped and offended mother.

    Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

  • 'Do you know, Minards, I was at Tregarrick yesterday; and I think -- yes, without vaunting, I really think that the best of my pearmains yonder would have stood a fair chance of the prize for Table

    Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The minute they finished the outdoor work Laddie and Leon began bringing in baskets of apples, golden bellflowers, green pippins, white winter pearmains, Rhode Island greenings, and striped rambos all covered with hoarfrost, yet not frozen, and so full of juice you had to bite into them carefully or they dripped and offended mother.

    Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Red heaps, and yellow heaps; and greenings, and purple pearmains, and streaked seek-no-furthers.

    The Other Girls 1865

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