Mayduke

English

Etymology

Corruption of Médoc, the province in France where it is supposed to have originated.

Noun

Mayduke (plural Maydukes)

1. A cherry of a large dark-red variety.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Mayduke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)