Citations:apricot

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English citations of apricot

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  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck.

German citations of apricot

  • 2016, Klaus-Peter Enghardt, Im Paradies des Teufels: Dreißig Monate zwischen Bomben und Jasmin:
    Der Wein hatte eine fast apricote Farbe und war recht süß.