Meaning of Seville orange | Babel Free

Definitions

The bitter orange: a tree and fruit of the species Citrus aurantium.

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“DON PEDRO. Why, how now, count⟳! wherefore are you sad? CLAUDIO. Not sad, my lord. DON PEDRO. How then? Sick? CLAUDIO. Neither, my lord. BEATRICE. The count⟳ is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil count⟳, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.”

“In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women—he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the proverb—and I quite agree⟳;”

“1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Castles in Spain The softer Andalusian skies Dispelled the sadness and the gloom; There Cadiz by the seaside lies, And Seville's orange-orchards rise⟳, Making the land⟳ a paradise Of beauty and of bloom.”

“Eau de Naphre, Eau le Naphe, Fr.; Aqua naphæ, L. This article is distilled in Languedoc from the leaves of the bigarade, or bitter-orange tree, but the preparation sold in England under this name⟳ is often prepared as follows: —Orange flowers, 7 lbs.; fresh yellow peel of the bigarade or Seville orange, […]”

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