Meaning of Red Delicious | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A variety of apple which is red in color and has a mild sweet flavor.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Red Delicious.
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Examples

“I once knew a girl who wouldn’t eat apples. She wove her walking around groves and orchards. She didn’t even like to look at them. They’re all mealy, she said. Or else too cheeky, too bloomed. No, she stated again, in case we had not heard her, our laps brimming with Granny Smiths and Red Deliciouses.”

“The first thing Billy did every morning at work was to swing by the main school’s cafeteria in the basement two floors below and pick up breakfast for the Academic Vision Institute: a plastic crate of thirty assorted milks (chocolate, obviously, being the only one anybody ever drank), twenty foil-topped orange juices (“contains less than 6% juice/product of Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, and the United States”), around ten individually-sealed plastic cereal bowls (plus ten spork-napkin-straw kits), various fruits (almost always mealy, thick-skinned Red Deliciouses and rock-hard pears), and motley breakfast pastries.”

“These were native to the soil, and it’s unclear if they were used by Native Americans. In any case, contemporary palates—raised on flawless, tart Granny Smiths or Red Deliciouses—would have deemed them inedible, either impossibly sour or garbage-y bland.”

“As he finished unloading the fruit, a woman gained the platform and came and bent over the up-tilted bushel of red deliciouses.”

“I could hear Teresa metal-smushing red deliciouses in the kitchen, striking the cold, hard-sounding bowl with her tool.”

“I sit at the coffee table, eating / A red delicious with one hand / And type on my laptop with the other.”

“I leer over the freestanding pile of apples. In the daytime it would have been a nicely-arranged pyramid of honey crisps, granny smiths, red deliciouses, and ambrosias, but in the evening it resembles an archaeological dig.”

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