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rambo1 U.S.|ˈræmbəʊ|
[See rambure.]
A variety of eating or cooking apple which ripens late in autumn and has yellowish, red-streaked skin. Also attrib.
1804J. Mease in A. F. M. Willich Domestic Encycl. (Amer. ed.) III. 113/1 Rambo. From Delaware; a fine fall apple. 1817W. Coxe View of Cultivation of Fruit Trees 116 Rambo, or Romanite. This apple is much cultivated in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. 1867Hours at Home V. 318/1 There, too, was the ‘rambo-row’—alas! how it is thinned out. 1880Harper's Mag. Aug. 355/1 Outside there were great orchards..with old fashioned Baldwins and Rambos. 1898M. Deland Old Chester Tales 178 Its apples..were poor enough—hard, gnarly russets, or small, bitter rambos. 1906N.Y. Even. Post (Saturday Suppl.) 5 May 3/2 There were still the meetings of an evening..beneath the rambo apple tree. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie xi. 329 There was a teasing fragrance in the spiced vinegar for pickles, a reminder of winesap and rambo in the boiling cider. 1942C. Weygandt Plenty of Pennsylvania 64 The Rambo apple is not generally raised nowadays. |