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▪ I. marmalade, n.|ˈmɑːməleɪd|
Forms: 6 marmylate, -elad, -ilat, -ilade, mormelade, marmlet, mermelado, 6–7 marmelet(t, -alad, -alate, 6–8 marmalet, -elade, 7 marmilad, -ilitt, -alit, -alett, -ulade, -ulate, -ulet, -aled, -eleta, -elate, mermalade, 8 marmolet, mermelade, 6– marmalade.
[a. F. marmelade, in Cotgr. mermelade, a. Pg. marmelada, f. marmelo quince, repr. (with dissimilation of consonants) L. melimēlum, a. Gr. µελίµηλον (‘honey-apple’, f. µέλι honey + µῆλον apple) the name of some kind of apple which was grafted on a quince. From the Pg. word are also Sp. marmelada, It. marmellata, and (through Fr.) G., Du., Da. marmelade, Sw. marmelad.]
1. a. A preserve or confection made by boiling fruits (orig. quinces, now usually Seville oranges) with sugar, so as to form a consistent mass.
Often with prefixed word, as apricot marmalade, lemon marmalade, orange marmalade, quince marmalade; when there is no word prefixed, orange marmalade is now commonly meant.
[1524in Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII (1870) IV. i. 339 Presented by Hull of Exeter one box of marmalade.] 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 44 b, A piece of a quynce rosted or in marmelade. Ibid. 79 b, Marmalade of quynces. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 266 Therfore you must giue him leaue after euery meale to cloase his stomacke with Loue, as with Marmalade. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. i. i, Marmalet of plummes, quinces &c. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 168 A healing powder of Gall and Marmalate of Dates. 1767H. Glasse Cookery App. 353 Marmalade of cherries. Put the cherries into the sugar, and boil them pretty fast till it be a marmalade. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 223 To make Orange Marmalade. Take the clearest Seville oranges you can get [etc.]. Ibid. 225 To make Apricot Marmalade. 1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery 457 Marmalade for the [Apple] Charlotte. Weigh three pounds of good boiling apples..let these stew over a gentle fire, until they form a perfectly smooth and dry marmalade. Ibid. 489 Very fine imperatrice-plum marmalade. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxi. (ed. 2) 487 The fruit is without much flavour,..though it is well adapted for marmalade.
b. Proverbial and fig.
1592G. Harvey New Letter Wks. (Grosart) I. 280 Euery Periode of her stile carrieth marmalad and sucket in the mouth. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 53 The marmalade and sucket of the Muses.
2. The fruit of Lucuma mammosa; also, the tree itself. Also called natural marmalade.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 69/1 [Achras mammosa.] Fruit..inclosing a thick pulp called natural marmalade. 1821–2Lindley in Trans. Horticult. Soc. (1824) IV. 97 The Mammee Sapota..is called Natural Marmalade. 1846― Veg. Kingd. 591 The Marmalade (Achras mammosa). 1866Treas. Bot. 698/1 Lucuma mammosum..is cultivated for the sake of its fruit, which is called Marmalade, or Natural Marmalade.
3. a. attrib.: marmalade box, (a) a box for marmalade; (b) the fruit of Genipa americana = genipap; † marmalade-eater, ? one daintily brought up; marmalade fruit, the fruit of the marmalade-tree; † marmalade-madam, a strumpet; marmalade-plum, the fruit of the marmalade-tree or the tree itself (J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants, 1882); marmalade-tree, the mammee-sapota (see sense 2).
1624Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lviii, 6 galley potts and 12 *marmalett boxes for Mrs. Segrave. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xxviii. 318 A singular kind of fruit, called here the marmalade box,..the husk..opens in halves like a walnut, when the pulp appears like that of a medlar.
1614R. Tailor Hog hath lost Pearl ii. D, Th'art as witty a *marmaled eater as euer I conuerst with.
1840Schomburgk Brit. Guiana 100 The Pine-apple, the Guava, the *Marmalade fruit.
1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 162 The Gallants a little before Sun-set walk with their *Marmalet-Madams, as we do in Morefields. 1717E. Ward Wks. II. 351 More Marmulet Madams will be met strolling in the Fields, than Honest Women in the Streets.
1866Treas. Bot. 722/2 *Marmalade-Tree, Lucuma mammosum.
†b. quasi-adj. = ‘sweet’. Obs.
1629Massinger Picture i. i, I cannot blame my ladies Vnwillingnesse to part with such marmulade lips.
c. quasi-adj.: of the colour of marmalade (so marmalade-coloured adj.).
1926S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes iii. 184 Jim was..a mottled marmalade cat. 1938K. Hale (title) Orlando, the marmalade cat. 1951‘C. Carnac’ It's her own Funeral iv. 38 James, the marmalade cat, was sitting disapprovingly outside. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. p. xvii/2 Miss White's account of how a fierce little Siamese and an unsnubbable marmalade kitten learnt to live amicably together. 1961Guardian 20 Jan. 9/7 A magnificent dark marmalade-coloured Persian cat. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ii. 29, I faced a crowd of blonde giants with marmalade fuzz on their chests. 1972J. Aiken Butterfly Picnic iii. 55 The local marmalade-coloured rock. 1973‘E. Peters’ City of Gold & Shadows iii. 47 A very austere dress in a dark russet-orange shade that touched off the marmalade lights in her eyes.
Hence ˈmarmalady a., resembling marmalade in sweetness, etc.; also fig.
1602Middleton Blurt iii. i, The Frenchman you see has a soft mermaladie heart. 1920Joyce Let. 3 Jan. (1957) I. 135 Nausikaa is written in a namby-pamby jammy marmalady..style. 1960P. Coleridge Running Footsteps 59 A clipped marmaladey moustache.
▪ II. ˈmarmalade, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To spread with marmalade. Hence ˈmarmaladed ppl. a.
1967D. Pinner Ritual x. 107 David..selected a piece of toast, marmaladed it, and munched it. 1968C. Nicole Self Lovers i. 18 Brice marmaladed toast. 1975J. Wood North Kill vii. 106 Eating steamed haddock along with marmaladed toast. |