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pine-apple en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable) Archaic form of pineapple.
   alt of pineapple
   • The organs that are gratified with the taſte of ſickly veal bled into a palſy, crammed fowls, and dropſical brawn, peaſe without ſubſtance, peaches without taſte, and pine-apples without flavour, will certainly nauſeate the native, genuine, and ſalutary taſte of Welch beef, Banſtead mutton, and barn-door fowls, whoſe juices are concocted by a natural digeſtion, and whoſe fleſh is conſolidated by free air and exerciſe. 1798, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays and Criticisms, London: J. Johnson, Volume II, Essay 13, p. 144:
   • Ananas, or Pine-Apple, the moſt admired for Taſte. 1698, John Fryer, “Shews the Pleasure and the Product of the Woods: The People Bewitched to Idolatry; the Sottishness of the Atheist. I am Sent for to Bombaim; after Some Endeavours to Go Thither, and Some Time Spent at Goa, Am Forced to Winter at Carwar, and then I return to Surat.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter IV (A Relation of the Canatick-Country), page 182:
   • […] (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) […] 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 11:
   • […] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. […] Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine-apple; […] 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Green Silk Purse”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 31:
   • He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls[.] 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 207:
   • Fresh breezes sweep down the mountains, laden with the perfumes of the orange, the banana, pine-apple, and mountain apple trees […] 1861, chapter XXV, in Ira Jones, Life and Adventure in the South Pacific, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 324:
   • The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons. 1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 262:

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