pine-apple

plural pine-apples

1. archaiccountableuncountableArchaic form of pineapple.

   Ananas, or Pine-Apple, the moſt admired for Taſte.

   1698, John Fryer, “Shews the Pleasure and the Product of the Woods: The People Bewitched to Idolatry; the Sottishness of the Atheist. I am Sent for to Bombaim; after Some Endeavours to Go Thither, and Some Time Spent at Goa, Am Forced to Winter at Carwar, and then I return to Surat.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter IV (A Relation of the Canatick-Country), page 182

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   The organs that are gratified with the taſte of ſickly veal bled into a palſy, crammed fowls, and dropſical brawn, peaſe without ſubſtance, peaches without taſte, and pine-apples without flavour, will certainly nauſeate the native, genuine, and ſalutary taſte of Welch beef, Banſtead mutton, and barn-door fowls, whoſe juices are concocted by a natural digeſtion, and whoſe fleſh is conſolidated by free air and exerciſe.

   1798, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays and Criticisms, London: J. Johnson, Volume II, Essay 13, p. 144

   The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons.

   1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 262

   […] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. […] Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine-apple; […]

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Green Silk Purse”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 31

   Fresh breezes sweep down the mountains, laden with the perfumes of the orange, the banana, pine-apple, and mountain apple trees […]

   1861, chapter XXV, in Ira Jones, Life and Adventure in the South Pacific, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 324

   […] (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) […]

   1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 11