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Example sentences for: persimmons

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Here and elsewhere, the rich, flat land produces the ingredients for a formidable fruit salad: oranges and grapefruit, chestnuts and persimmons, plus exotic tropical delicacies all but unknown outside Asia.
It is possibly because of my predominantly urban upbringing in America that I have never heard that or several other expressions, similarly attributed, having to do with persimmons (which were always something of a joke, in any event).