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Jordan almond definition

Jordan almond

  1. a variety of large Spanish almond
  2. a confection consisting of such an almond with a hardened, colored coating of sugar

Etymology: altered (by assoc. with the proper name Jordan) < ME jardyne almaunde < OFr jardin, garden + ME almande, almond: i.e., a cultivated almond

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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