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Currant

noun
1.
Any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams.
2.
Any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants.  Synonym: currant bush.
3.
Small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking.



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"Currant" Quotes from Famous Books



... The spicy scent of sweet-currant blossoms hung in the dewy air that wrapped one of the darkened village houses. From a syringa bush before another, as they moved on, a denser perfume stole out with the wild song of a cat-bird hidden in it; the music and the odour seemed braided together. ...
— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... our predecessor, (shame on me to forget the name of a man to whom I owe so much!)—and possessing also a strong old mulberry tree, a tall white-heart cherry tree, a black Kentish one, and an almost unbroken hedge, all round, of alternate gooseberry and currant bush; decked, in due season, (for the ground was wholly beneficent), with magical splendour of abundant fruit: fresh green, soft amber, and rough-bristled crimson bending the spinous branches; clustered pearl and pendent ruby joyfully discoverable ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... nothing in currant jelly or tea to hurt you. You can be thankful it isn't poisonous." ...
— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster
... very kind and sincerely attached to me. We were soon followed by my cousin, Samuel Somerville and his wife. We had only been a day or two in the little inn at Lowood when he was taken ill of a fever, which detained us there for more than a month. During his illness he took a longing for currant jelly, and here my cookery was needed; I made some that was excellent, and I never can forget the astonishment expressed at my being able ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville
... compounded with milk, belong in England to the May festival. In Germany there is a "May drink" (said to be very nice) made by putting woodruff into white Rhine wine, in the proportion of a handful to a quart. Black currant, balm, or peppermint leaves are sometimes added, ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing


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