Meaning of blackaroon | Babel Free

Definitions

A species of small dark cherries found in Northern England and Scotland.

rare, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Next follows the small black Cherry called the Blackaroon, which are also a profitable commodity for the barrows.”

“Madock, White and Black Heart Cherries, Blackaroons, Kentish Cherries, and others, begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits.”

“The chestnut was chestan (O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.”

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