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Subject: bletting: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Aug. 31, 2014

bletting \BLET-ing\ noun 1. the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained. Quotes … the strange fruit was not good if eaten before ageing and bletting, when its taste became like chocolate. -- Leslie Forbes, Waking Raphael, 2003 Origin Bletting comes from the French word blet meaning "overripe." It entered English in the 1830s.

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