SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: DAMSON

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:     DAMSON

 

PRONUNCIATION:

 (DAM-ZUHN, -SUHN)

MEANING:

(noun): . 1. A variety of small plum (Prunus insititia) or its fruit.
2. A dark purple color.  

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin Prunum Damascenum (plum of Damascus), perhaps because it was first cultivated in Damascus or because it was introduced into Europe from Syria. Two other words coined after Damascus are damask and damascene. Earliest documented use: 1398.

USAGE: "The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass.”

The Journal of Katherine Mansfield; Knopf; 1927.

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