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ˈred-streak
Also 7 -strake.
1. A red-streaked apple formerly highly esteemed for making cider.
1664Evelyn Pomona i. 6 Thus the famous Red-strake of Hereford-shire is a pure Wilding, and within the memory of some now living sirnamed the Scudamores Crab. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 209 Above all Cider-fruit, the Redstreak hath obtain'd the preference. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 32 Let every Tree in every Garden own The Red-Streak as supream. 1750Shenstone Rural Elegance 31 Is not the red-streak's future juice The source of your delight? 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 238 The species called the red-streak, is mostly preferred; but of late years, these orchards have been much subject to a blight. 1875F. J. Scudamore Day Dreams 16 We began to pass through apple-orchards, in which the ‘redstreak’ flourished in its native soil.
b. The cider made from this. (Cf. 3.)
1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2129, I have had as good Red⁓strake as ever I drank in any place. 1709E. Smith Poem J. Philips 64 Redstreak he quaffs beneath the Chianti Vine, Gives Tuscan yearly for thy Scud'more's Wine. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. South-Hams, That noble rough cyder which is generally preferred to the soft sickly Hereford redstreak.
2. transf. A girl with red cheeks.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 26 June, Then turning to Liddy, he added—‘What say you, my pretty Redstreak?’ 1776R. Graves Euphrosyne (1776) VI. 219 The rural lass with ruddy cheeks, The Redstreak we may name.
3. attrib., as red-streak apple, red-streak cider, red-streak face.
1664Evelyn Pomona 25 So does the Red-strake-Cider of the Vale excell any other Cider of the forcible soil. Ibid. 27 M. Philips..shewed me a very fair large Red-strake apple. 1712W. Rogers Voy. (1718) 12, I gave him a dozen bottles of Red-Streak Cyder. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. xii, That redstreak country face. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 721/1 Those most esteemed for cyder are..the redstreak apple, the whitsour [etc.].
Hence † red-streaked a., made from red-streaks.
For other uses of the comb., see red a. 14 a, 14 b.
1664Evelyn Pomona 26 Red-cheek'd and Red-strak'd Musts of several kinds. Ibid., A richer Red-strak'd-cider of a..fulvous or ruddy colour. |