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- noun A variety of
plum having dark-skinned fruit - noun A
liqueur made from the fruit
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With an unsteady but insistent line, he portrays the faces of friends and artists, a handful of quetsch plums, an old bicycle, a dead badger and a host of other subjects; and with his clear, sinuous prose, he gives an account of how the contours of reality "harass" the act of drawing.
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knitandpurl commented on the word quetsch
"The lower level of the rack holds five bottles of fruit brandies: kirsch, apricot, quetsch, plum, raspberry."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 325
Though quetsch is apparently a variety of plum brandy, according to http://www.foodsubs.com/Brandy.html
June 17, 2008