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These delicacies—wild-cherry-and-rhubarb pasties, plump whortleberry pies, potato-and-mushroom turnovers—make an appearance at every feast, and in every traveller’s knapsack.—Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021 Menu selections aboard one Victoria Luise cruise included beef broth with farina dumplings and roast duck and whortleberry soup.—Daryl Austin, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2021
Word History
Etymology
alteration of earlier hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtilberye, irregular from Old English horte whortleberry + Middle English berye berry
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