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pomme de neige

[< Cdn F]

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a juicy fall apple having crisp, white flesh and red skin when ripe.

See: snow apple

Quotations

1807

The apples are particularly good--The Pomme de Neige, so called from its being extremely white, and from its having the granulated appearance of snow, when broken; it dissolves, almost entirely, in the mouth like snow. . . .

1853

. . . last year gave me upwards of a hundred bushels of . . . the Ribstone pippin, Newtown pippin, Pearmain, Pomme-de-gris, Pomme-de-neige and many other sorts equally good.