Lexicographical Neighbors of Merises
Literary usage of Merises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knife and Fork for 1849: Laid by the "Alderman." Founded on the Culinary (1849)
"It is absolutely impossible (from the scarcity of merises) to produce, in an
honest way, one tenth of the quantity of the stuff sold as ..."
2. The Minstrelsy of the Woods; Or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the by S. Waring (1832)
"... bonne merises," he cries. 'Tis a pleasant life he leads, In the orchards,
groves, and meads; Richly does the oriole fare, On the fruits he gathers there ..."
3. La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville: ou, Nouvelle cuisine économique by Louis-Eustache Audot (1879)
"Les autres conserves s'emploient telles qu'elles sont. Suc de merises. Le suc de
merises servira à colorer diverses préparations de fruits ; par exemple, ..."
4. Rural Rides by William Cobbett (1853)
"... that is to say, the little black cherry, the name of which is a corruption
from the French merise, in the singular, and merises in the plural. ..."
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