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pommage

pommage noun: the set of apple and/or pear varieties grown in a region or location.

Noun

pommage

  1. The set of apple and/or pear varieties grown in a region or location.
    • In a certain locality, however, it is not all the varieties included in the regional pommage that are traditionally grown, and that locality might have a pommage which is a subset of the regionl one.2022, Claude Jolicoeur, Cider Planet, page 17
  2. The ground-up apples from which cider is pressed.
    • In grinding the apples for this use into pommage, several methods are practised; but the two most chiefly in use are, the bruising-stone with a circular trough, and the apple-mill.1807, The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry
    • This is effected by placing clear sweet straw, or hair cloths, between the layers of pommage, till there is a pile of ten or twelve layers. This pile is then subjected to different degrees of pressure in succession, till all the must or juice is squeezed from the pommage.1823, Colin MacKenzie, Five Thousand Receipts in all the useful and domestic arts, page 220
  3. (obsolete) pomace

Questions about pommage

What does pommage mean?
Pommage means the set of apple and/or pear varieties grown in a region or location.
What part of speech is pommage?
Pommage is a noun.

Words near pommage in the dictionary

  1. pomis
  2. pomitude
  3. Pomland
  4. pommade
  5. pommades
  6. pommage
  7. Pommard
  8. Pommards
  9. pomme
  10. pomme blanche
  11. pomme frite

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