orange-juice

See also: orange juice

English

Noun

orange-juice (uncountable)

  1. Dated form of orange juice.
    • 1736 October 12, The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 17435, column 2:
      At ſome publick Houſes 5 Pints of Brandy, with 5 Quarts of Water, and a Pint of Limon or Orange-Juice, and Sugar, has been ſold without paying any Duty, being 2 Gallons, according to the Act.
    • 1877, Kettner [pseudonym; Eneas Sweetland Dallas], “Perch”, in Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical, Historical, London: Dulau and Co. […], →OCLC, page 340:
      The present practice over the Continent is to stew them [perch] in vinegar, fresh grape, orange-juice, or other sour sauce; […]
      Previous published unhyphenated in Charles David Badham’s Prose Halieutics; or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle (1854).
    • 1993, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 10, in Moonflower Madness, Sutton, London: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:
      A Victoria spongecake held pride of place as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.
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