OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4412

peach

/piːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
duraznero • durazno • melocotonero • melocotón
Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.
[A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be ver…
perita en dulce
A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?
Walking on the beaches / looking at the peaches
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