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单词 damson
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damsonn.

/ˈdamz(ə)n/
Forms: Middle English–1800s damascene, Middle English damacene, damacyne, Middle English damesene, Middle English damesyn, damys(s)yn, Middle English–1500s damasyn, 1500s dameson, damysen, damisen, damozin, dammosen, damasson, damassen, 1500s–1600s dam(m)asin, 1500s–1800s damascen, 1600s damazine, damazeene, damosin; Middle English damsyn, 1500s dampson, damsine, damsing, 1500s–1600s damsen, 1600s damzin, 1600s–1700s damsin, Middle English– damson.
Etymology: Middle English (or ? Anglo-Norman) damascene, < Latin Damascēnum for Prūnum Damascēnum plum of Damascus (Isidore xvii. vii. 10 Damascena a Damasco oppido). The various weakenings, damesene, damesen, damsen, damson, appear to be all of English development.
1.
a. A small plum, black or dark purple, the fruit of Prunus communis or domestica, variety damascena, which was introduced in very early times into Greece and Italy from Syria.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > damson
damsona1400
damasee14..
damask prune1539
damson plum1584
damask plum1600
a1400 Pistill of Susan 89 Þer weore growyng so grene Þe Date wiþ þe Damesene.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 192 Take xx. damascenes & xii. figis.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 162 Damesyns.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 122 Serve fastynge, plommys, damsons, cheries and grapis to plese.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxi. sig. K.iv .vi. or .vii. damysens eaten before dyner be good to prouoke a mans appetyde.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 32 Damisens whit, & black.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §509 In Fruits, the white commonly is meaner, as in Pear-plumbs, Damosins, etc.
1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 57 The Damazeene also is an excellent fruit.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xviii. 154 (heading) To preserve Damsons Whole.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 51. ⁋14 The art of scalding damascenes without bursting them.
1818 M. M. Sherwood Fairchild Family I. xiv. 115 Mrs. Fairchild and Betty boiled up a great many damascenes in sugar.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Prunus institia, the Bullace..A variety occurs with yellowish fruit, which latter are sold in London as White Damsons.
b. Locally, a distinction is sometimes made between damson and damascene, the latter being applied to the so-called damson-plum: see 1c.
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1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. at Damascene This and the damson are distinct sorts of plums: the damascene is the larger of the two, and not at all bitter; the damson is smaller, and has a peculiar bitter or roughness.
1891 Daily News 17 Nov. 5/2 In Nottinghamshire there is, it seems, a recognised distinction between ‘damsons’ or ‘damasons’ and ‘damascenes’..in the Newark County Court..a greengrocer..complained that whereas he had ordered damsons he was supplied with damascenes.
c. damson plum n. formerly = sense 1a; later applied to a sub-variety of plum somewhat like the damson: see quot 1892.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > damson
damsona1400
damasee14..
damask prune1539
damson plum1584
damask plum1600
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
perdrigon1582
damson plum1584
apple-plum1601
bullace-plum1608
amber plum1629
Christian1629
queen mother1629
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
Orleans1674
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
hog plum1863
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
Carlsbad plum1885
apricot plum1893
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cv. 92 The Damasin Plummes are woont to be dryed and preserued as figges.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Damaisine, a Damascene, or Damsen plum.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover iii. 60 It was..the best of plum-trees, it was a damsin plum.
1892 Daily News 13 Sept. 3/2 The damson plum..is quite as good for most purposes as the damson, and has not its acridity or roughness.
2. The tree which bears this: also damson tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > plum-tree > types of
damson treea1398
bullace-treec1440
bullester1500
bullace1616
lote-tree1640
Catherine plum1691
white plum1696
bullet-bush1732
lotus1760
wild plum1838
wild-goose plum1909
apricot plum1957
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxv. 1021 Of þat tre [sc. plum] is many maner of kynde, but the damacene is þe beste.
14.. T. of Erceldoune 180 (Cambr.) Þe darte and also þe damsyn tre.
1575 Art of Planting 11 To set Damsons or Plum trees.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 267 In Aprill follow..The Dammasin, and Plum-Trees in Blossome.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 158 In shallow or wet soils it is better to bud [peaches] on plum stocks, such as damsons, St. Juliens, &c.
3. Applied to Chrysophyllum oliviferum of the West Indies (damson-plum, quot. 1756); bitter or mountain damson, a name for Simaruba amara.
ΚΠ
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 171 The Damson Plumb..is found wild in many parts of Jamaica.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 319 The Simaruba quassia, or mountain damson, as it is called in Jamaica.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 224 Simaruba officinalis..attains the height of sixty feet, and is called Bitter Damson, Mountain Damson, and Slave Wood.

Compounds

C1. attributive or adj. Of the colour of the damson. Also damson brown.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > purplish brown
damson brown1661
lavender-brown1813
the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > deep purple
jacinthinous1495
damson1661
imperial1736
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5 Partridg, grecian, reddish, cinereous, white, and damascen.
1684 London Gaz. No. 1963/4 A Damson brown Mare.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. vi. iv. 347 Damascene colours, and other shades of browns of the common dye.
C2. attributive and in other combinations, as damson dumpling, etc.
ΚΠ
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vi. 158 To make Damson Dumplins.
C3.
damson-cheese n. an inspissated conserve of damsons and sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > cheese
cheese1660
damson-cheesec1803
c1803 C. K. Sharpe New Oxf. Guide ii, in Mem. (1888) I. 15 Cakes, ruskins, prunelloes, and sweet damson cheese.
damson-plum n. (see 1c, 3).
damson-tart n. (also damson-pie) [after damn] slang profane language.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language
swarec1200
shit-wordc1275
words of villainya1300
filtha1400
reveriec1425
bawdry1589
scurrility1589
bawdy1622
tongue-worm1645
borborology1647
Billingsgatry1673
double entendre1673
smut1698
blackguardism1756
slang1805
epithet1818
dirty word1842
French1845
language1855
bad languagec1863
bestiality1879
swear-word1883
damson-tart1887
comminative1888
double entente1895
curse-word1897
bang-words1906
soldier's farewell1909
strong languagea1910
dirty story1912
dirty joke1913
bullocky1916
shitticism1936
Anglo-Saxonism1944
sweary1994
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady 213 His language is profane from long habit—‘given over to damson tart like’, as they say in Arcady.
1888 W. Black Strange Adventures House-boat viii. (Farmer) Even if you were to hear some of the Birmingham lads giving each other a dose of damson-pie..you wouldn't understand a single sentence.
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