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AVIGNON-BERRY

Volume 3 · 67 words · 1810 Edition

fruit of a species of lycium; growing plentifully near Avignon and in other parts of France. The berry is somewhat less than a pea; its colour is green, approaching towards a yellow; and it is of an agreeable and bitter taste.β€”It is much used by the dyers, who stain a yellow colour with it; and by the painters, who also make a fine golden yellow of it.