quarandine

English

Noun

quarandine (plural quarandines)

1. Alternative form of quarrender (“kind of red apple”)
   • 1997, Quentin Bell, Virginia Nicholson, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 126:

     In the orchard all attempts to maintain respectability had been abandoned; nettles and rank grass grew high around the fruit trees. One of these grew the most delicious little round pears; from another we used to pick lovely little red apples called quarandines.

Anagrams

• quadrennia