red delicious

red delicious (plural red deliciouses)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Red Delicious.
   • 2006, Third Coast, Department of English at Western Michigan University, page 64:

     As he finished unloading the fruit, a woman gained the platform and came and bent over the up-tilted bushel of red deliciouses.

   • 2008, Beth Kephart, House of Dance, Laura Geringer Books/HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 171:

     I could hear Teresa metal-smushing red deliciouses in the kitchen, striking the cold, hard-sounding bowl with her tool.

   • 2020, Pam Rosenblatt, “The world is but an apple: Or is an apple but the world?”, in Looking for Camelot, →ISBN, page 28:

     I sit at the coffee table, eating / A red delicious with one hand / And type on my laptop with the other.

   • 2022, Vanessa Krauss, “Evening”, in Thin, JMS Books LLC, →ISBN:

     I leer over the freestanding pile of apples. In the daytime it would have been a nicely-arranged pyramid of honey crisps, granny smiths, red deliciouses, and ambrosias, but in the evening it resembles an archaeological dig.