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Griotte is the French word for Morello cherry (a type of sour cherry), and the 'Griotte de Kleparow' is distinguished from other sour cherry varieties like the Montmorency cherry by having darker flesh and juice. The cultivar became popular in Europe for use as a table fruit and for making cherry juice. [12]
In the UK, three different varieties are recognized, forcing the EU to use the term "dried vine fruit" in official documents. A raisin is any dried grape. While raisin is a French loanword, the word in French refers to the fresh fruit; grappe (from which the English grape is derived) refers to the bunch (as in une grappe de raisins).
The fruit used to be shipped to Genoa, Italy, where it was de-pulped in the large centers in Livorno, hence its name the Citron of Commerce. [citation needed] With 45,000 tons per year, Corsica was once the world's leading producer of citron. The historian Laurence Pinelli explains: [1] Citron was a source of considerable wealth for Corsica.
The Chanson de l'Oignon (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ də lɔɲɔ̃]; "Song of the Onion") is a French marching song from around 1800 but the melody can be found earlier in Ettiene Nicolas Mehul’s overture to La chasse de Juene Henri in 1797. According to legend, it originated among the Old Guard Grenadiers of Napoleon Bonaparte's ...
In German, the lumia is called Birnenlimone, Patriarch-Citrone, Süsse Limone [1] or Birnenlumie; in French it is called Poire du commandeur. In Chinese it is called Lu mi (露蜜), in Japanese Rumii (ル ミー), Vietnamese, Chanh Pháp. [1] The fruit resembles a pear in shape, has a thick peel and is not very juicy.
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Still Life with Apples (1872). Still-Life with Fruit (French - Nature morte aux fruits) is a series of still life paintings produced between 1871 and 1872 by Gustave Courbet, marking his return to painting after the silence forced on him by the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, imprisonment and illness.