sloe

If sloe berries aren’t readily available, you can substitute damsons, a similar fruit, or experiment with any fruits and a base of gin or even vodka.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

It’s a wonderfully economic performance, all slouch and sloe eyes, offering a moral thermometer of the fallen world through which Raylan moves via Olyphant’s sly repertoire of expressions: grin, smirk, smile, hard stare, blank bemusement.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

Right now, I’m in a park, surrounded by new white sloe blossom, listening to Eden and trying not to let anyone see the faces I’m pulling.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019

It is believed that Suffolk Pink dates back to the 14th Century and other natural ingredients such as elderberries, blackthorn or sloe juice were also added to create the colour.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2018

There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

This applies to lots of fruits that are the same colour including damsons, sloes and juniper berries.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

When you forage for sloes, Horning says, feel the berries for ripeness, but also look for a yeast powder on the berry’s core, “a telltale sign that the fruit’s ripe.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

Ripening hedge fruits include sloes, hips and haws; it has been a splendid year for acorns, and among the myriad autumn fungi, look out for ceps, or penny-buns as they are sometimes known.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2020

She had to entice him, as she had enticed the child in bygone days, the sweet little child with the eyes like sloes that was to run from the chair to the next halting-place.

From The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

The olives were not yet in flower, but the plums and sloes were powdered with white; all was in order.

From The Spanish Jade by William Henry Hyde