sloe

Their plum-like, inky blue-purple sloe berries became synonymous with the English countryside.

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

Dadi, meanwhile, looked like she may as well have been sipping a sloe gin fizz in the Bahamas.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

De wild sloes, de red haws an' de crab apples is ripe.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

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 Hyde, William Henry