orange
/ˈoɹənd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To colour orange.
- To become orange.
He/she/it oranges · Past oranged · Past participle oranged · -ing form oranging
Verb forms
- Base form
- orange
- He/she/it
- oranges
- Past
- oranged
- Past participle
- oranged
- -ing form
- oranging
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“And have they all tasted of a slightly bitter flavor, like that of dried orange-peel?”
After Charles I., Cromwell; after Cromwell, Charles II., and then James II., and then some son-in-law or relation, some Prince of Orange, a stadtholder who becomes a king.
“No, no, Albert, but you know these roses, tuberoses, and orange-flowers throw out at first, before one is used to them, such violent perfumes.”
Meanwhile, Danglars, who had cared little for curiosities, was mechanically tearing off the blossoms of a splendid orange-tree, one after another.
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