orange marmalade
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈɔrɪndʒ ˈmɑrməˌleɪd/
:
marmelada de naranja
- In her recipe, she used orange marmalade to add sweetness to the glaze.
- tablespoon of orange marmalade
- cup of orange marmalade
- orange marmalade and jam
Examples
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And then I'd be in the same boat with poor Esther, whose once-secret orange marmalade cake recipe is circulating through Mitford like a virus.
Fiction book (1999) -
I spread orange marmalade on my toast for breakfast every morning.
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Whole wheat toast and orange marmalade, right?
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I'd pushed away my plate, but there was a sticky spot, probably orange marmalade, where I would have liked to put my hands.
Fiction book (1994) -
Gentlemen, for breakfast this morning, Chef McGinty would like to propose an orange marmalade...
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Six slices of toast, orange marmalade, lots of butter and a large beer.
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I used just melted orange marmalade as a glaze (since I was lazy).
Blog text (5) -
Traditional brunch fare will have a Thai twist with dishes like chicken wings and waffles with ginger and orange marmalade.
Blog text (21) -
After a moment, the waiter brought a heaping plate of crepes smothered in hot orange marmalade; two dollops of ice cream slid along the doughy tubes.
Fiction book (1997) -
For tea time, she served scones with homemade orange marmalade on the side.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sweet spread made by boiling crushed fruit with sugar
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2.8
A sweet spread made from boiled orange peel, pulp, and sugar
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet preserve made from oranges' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'orange' (a citrus fruit) with 'marmalade' (a citrus-based sweet spread). This straightforward noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The compound orange marmalade comes from the older word marmalade, which may come from a Portuguese word for a quince 'jam'. When cooks began making a thick jam from oranges with bits of peel, they called it orange marmalade, so today it means a sweet orange 'spread' for bread.