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Definition of Ackees
1. ackee [n] - See also: ackee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ackees
Literary usage of Ackees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1905)
"ackees are a brilliant scarlet fruit with black seeds. ... ackees we do not have
here, but the other recipes for salt fish from a Jamaica cookery book would ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"STEEK- ackees. Tours' (No date, but it must have been early in October, 1870.)
y seront acquittes à présentation La direction prend des mesures pour t The ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... you see de cocos and de ackees, and all de bread kind ! My king, it make for
me mout water ! ..."
4. An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth: From the Flight of the by Francis Baylies (1866)
"... alias ackees, and places adjacent, the bounds of which tract fully extend
three miles to the eastward of the most easterly part of the river or bay ..."