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Tangerine, a. and n.|tændʒəˈriːn|
Also 8 -een, 9 -ene.
[f. Tanger, Tangier + -ine1.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to, or native of Tangier, a seaport in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar. Tangerine orange, a small flattened deep-coloured variety of orange orig. from Tangier, Citrus nobilis var. Tangeriana.
1710Addison Tatler No. 250 ⁋3 An old Tangereen Captain with a Wooden Leg. 1841Tillery in Gard. Chron. 781 The Tangerine Orange.—I beg to draw attention to the cultivation of this as a fruit for the dessert. 1882Garden 18 Feb. 122/2 Two dishes of Tangerine Oranges.
B. n.
1. A native of Tangier.
1860All Year Round No. 71. 491 Winterfield was sold to a Tangarene.
2. Now with lower-case initial.
a. A Tangerine orange: see A.
1842Gard. Chron. 6 The Tangerine I suspect to be only a variety of it [the Mandarin Orange]. 1891Daily News 26 Dec. 5/4 There is an unusually good supply of tangerines. 1908R. W. Chambers Firing Line vi, Please get me a few tangerines—those blood-tangerines up there.
b. A deep orange colour; also attrib. and Comb., as tangerine-coloured adj.
1899Daily News 16 Sept. 7/3 Ruddy pink and tender amethyst, tangerine, orange, mist-grey [etc.]. 1904Ibid. 6 Oct. 8/4 Taking as the colour key-note, the fashionable tangerine shade. 1977M. Kenyon Rapist iii. 31 Shovelling sugar into his tangerine-coloured tea. |