firstfruit
English
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- first fruit
- first-fruit
Noun
firstfruit (plural firstfruits)
- An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.
- The first growth, allegory for the first people to receive the message.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 11:16:
- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
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- Ceremony in Southern Africa, notably among the Zulu and Swazi peoples, in which the paramount chief is the first to eat from the new harvest.
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