maraschino
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- noun
- /ˌmɛrəˈskiːnoʊ/
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maraschino
- 1 pound can fruit cocktail (with maraschino cherries), drained; 2 tablespoons chopped pecans.
- maraschino cherries
- garnish with maraschino
- jar of maraschino
Examples
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Pour into an Old Fashioned glass with one ice cube, add 3 maraschino cherries and 1 teaspoon of cherry juice.
Blog text (32) -
Serve in a small bowl with a spoon like ice cream, garnish with a maraschino cherry, and serve with fruit or nut cake.
Blog text (4) -
Look, it's a maraschino cherry.
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I see you got a couple of maraschino cherries yourself.
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- Have you got any maraschino cherries on you?
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When the plate was in front of me, I took a fork and speared a maraschino cherry.
Fiction book (2000) -
- Then you shall have them, dozens of them, with maraschino cherries and whipped cream.
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Grapefruit juice with vodka and three maraschino cherries.
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It's the Boston Creme cake with the maraschino cherry topping.
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A classic ice cream sundae is traditionally topped with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry.
Synonyms
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A small bright red cherry kept in sweet syrup and used to decorate drinks and desserts
A cherry kept in rum and sugar to flavor drinks and cakes
Compounds
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A small bright red cherry kept in sweet syrup and used to decorate drinks and desserts
A clear sweet alcoholic drink made from small bitter cherries used in cocktails and desserts
- Specialized
A wild Dalmatian cherry tree whose bitter fruit is used to make a sweet alcoholic cherry drink
Surface Forms
Etymology
Maraschino comes from the Italian name marasca, a 'small sour cherry' from the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. A maraschino cherry was originally a marasca preserved in the liqueur or a sweet syrup, which is why today it means a bright, sweet cherry used as a garnish.