Also 5 quenyng, 7 queenen. [f. QUEEN sb. + -ING3.] A variety of apple. Cf. WINTER-QUEENING.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 15. Eke the frutis wiche more comon be, Quenyngez, pechis, costardes, etiam wardons.

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1635.  Quarles, Embl., V. ii. (1818), 262. ’Tis not the lasting deuzan I require, Nor yet the red-cheeked queening.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. iii. 48. The Queening, is a fair red striped Apple, and beautiful in its Season, being a kind of Winter Fruit.

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1698.  M. Lister, Journ. Paris (1699), 194. It was the White Queenen (or Calvil d’Este) the Stem of the bigness only of my Thumb.

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1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Queening, a fine-flavoured sweet apple, common in the cider-orchards.

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