preserve
/pɹəˈzɝv/ noun B2- A sweetened spreadable jam or jelly made of any of a variety of fruits, such as strawberry, peach, or apple. · I like blueberry preserves even better than grape jam on buttered toast.
- Reservation, nature preserve.
- An exclusive, often protected, domain or area of activity. · Kids regard their tree houses as their own preserve.
Plural preserves
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There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.
In vain she nibbled at the bread and butter and pecked at the crab-apple preserve out of the little scalloped glass dish by her plate.
Preserve me from a sly child, that’s what.
Your dinner is in the oven, Anne, and you can get yourself some blue plum preserve out of the pantry.
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