the forbidden fruit

  • 11forbidden fruit — ► forbidden fruit a thing that is desired all the more because it is not allowed. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to the Book of Genesis, chapter 2.] Main Entry: ↑forbid …

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  • 12Forbidden Fruit (2000 film) — Infobox Film name = Forbidden Fruit image size = caption = director = Sue Maluwa Bruce producer = writer = Sue Maluwa Bruce narrator = starring = music = cinematography = Beate Kunath editing = Beate Kunath distributor = released = 2000 runtime …

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  • 13Forbidden Fruit (album) — Infobox Album Name = Forbidden Fruit Type = Album Artist = Elegy Released = 2000 Recorded = Genre = Power metal Label = Noise Records Last album = Manifestation of Fear (1999) This album = Forbidden Fruit (2000) Next album = Principles of Pain… …

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  • 14Forbidden Fruit — Infobox Album Name = Forbidden Fruit Type = Album Artist = Nina Simone Released = 1961 Recorded = New York City 1961 Genre = Vocal Jazz Blues Folk Length = Label = Colpix Records Producer = Cal Lampey Reviews = Last album = Nina Simone at Newport …

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  • 15Forbidden Fruit (1921 film) — Infobox Film name = Forbidden Fruit image size = caption = director = Cecil B. DeMille producer = Cecil B. DeMille writer = Cecil B. DeMille Jeanie MacPherson narrator = starring = Agnes Ayres music = cinematography = Alvin Wyckoff editing = Anne …

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  • 16forbidden fruit — n. something that is attractive because it is denied to one. (From the Garden of Eden in the Bible.) □ A new car became Ralph’s forbidden fruit. □ Liquor was forbidden fruit for Jed …

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  • 17forbidden fruit — Shaddock Shad dock, n. [Said to be so called from a Captain Shaddock, who first brought this fruit from the East Indies.] (Bot.) A tree ({Citrus decumana}) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; called also {forbidden fruit}, and… …

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  • 18forbidden fruit — noun a) The fruit forbidden to . b) Illicit pleasure; something that one should not take or get involved with, such as an another persons spouse …

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  • 19forbidden fruit — /fəbɪdn ˈfrut/ (say fuhbidn frooht) noun 1. the fruit of the tree of knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve in defiance of God. 2. unlawful pleasure, especially illicit sexual pleasure. {Biblical, from God s caution to Adam and Eve: But of the fruit of …

  • 20forbidden fruit — forbid′den fruit′ n. 1) bib the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God s prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3 2) any unlawful or immoral pleasure …

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