Well attestedNamed from the place
Concord grape
noun · first attested 1850s
America's juice-and-jelly grape was bred in one backyard in Massachusetts.
A dark blue-purple American grape with a slip skin and musky flavor, used for juice, jelly and sweet wine.
43.2067°N -71.5381°W · Q28249
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1850s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Concord grape
Ephraim Wales Bull selected it from wild fox grapes at his home in Concord, Massachusetts, and released it in the early 1850s. He earned almost nothing from it; his gravestone complains that other men reaped what he sowed.
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