Marmalade Definition

märmə-lād
noun
A jamlike preserve made by boiling the pulp and peel of a citrus fruit with sugar.
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verb

To spread marmalade on.

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Noun

Singular:
marmalade
Plural:
marmalades

Origin of Marmalade

  • French marmelade from Portuguese marmelada from marmelo quince alteration of Latin melimēlum a kind of sweet apple from Greek melimēlon meli honey melit- in Indo-European roots mēlon apple

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada (“quince jam"), from marmelo (“quince"), from Latin melimelum (“sweet apple"), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melimÄ“lon), from μέλι (meli, “honey") + μῆλον (mÄ“lon, “apple").

    From Wiktionary

Marmalade Sentence Examples

  • Jam and Marmalade and Rhythm and Police are two of the funkiest.

  • It may be considerably diminished by a return to a more natural system of feeding, as by using brown bread instead of white, by taking oatmeal porridge, and by eating raw or cooked fruits, such as apples, oranges, prunes and figs, or preserves made of fruit, such as raspberry and strawberry jam, marmalade, &c., by vegetables or by dried and powdered seaweed.

  • I have a particular weakness for ice cream tempura and they offer a choice of vanilla or green tea ice cream with either a strawberry marmalade or chocolate topping.

  • Instead, he sauntered into the dining room and sat next to Edith as she halved a muffin and in tiny motions spread it with butter and marmalade.

  • Not bad, they say, spreading marmalade on another slice.

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