SC - Are Kumquats period
Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
nannar at isholf.is
Sun Oct 17 02:39:18 PDT 1999
Lorix wrote:
>Firstly, are they period and, if so, how
>would they have been used in period?
They came from China and seem to have been known in Europe in the late 17th
century; the name was then spelled camquit or cumquat (from Cantonese kam
kwat, golden orange). I´m not sure if they were actually brought to Europe
then or if they were only known from travelogues.
Nanna
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