0 a small, black dried grape without seeds, used especially in cakes:
currant buns
1 a small, round fruit that grows on bushes and is eaten fresh or cooked:
currant bushes
2 a sour berry (= small, round fruit) that grows on bushes, or the plant on which it grows:
Perhaps, then, visual representations of food - including images of cherries or currants - functioned as substitutes or displacements for the #!
We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips.
Home-grown currants, in 1923–25, averaged about 300,000 cwts.
The currants were white and sugary, and therefore unsuited for sale as groceries.
If you have a loaf of bread with currants in, what is that?
The importation of black currants this year, though considerable, is appreciably less than was the case at this period last year.
We are raising this year just over £10,000,000 by taxation from food—tea, sugar, cocoa, currants, and other articles.
There were no appreciable imports of currants from these two countries.
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