Carlsbad
(ˈkɑːlzbæd)
The German form of the name of Karlovy Vary, a town in Czechoslovakia, used attrib. in Carlsbad plum, a blue-black dessert plum, usu. crystallized.
| 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List Jan. 72 Carlsbad plums..per lb. 1/7. a 1916 ‘Saki’ Toys of Peace (1919) 130 Trying to decide between the merits of Carlsbad plums and confected figs as a winter dessert. 1960 R. Collier House called Memory vi. 92 Sweet purple-black Carlsbad plums that would not [keep]. |