Crossword-Solution: PRUNA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The band of youngsters playing in the street were staring up at the moon as though they had never seen it before, singing in cadenced monotone with silvery little voices: _La lluna, la pruna_ _Vestida de dol ..._ "Eh, will you brats shut up!" Tonet protested, claiming that he had a headache.

The monotone of _la lluna la pruna_ came to an end, and peace settled over the moon-lit country-side.

Ipse ego cana legam tenerà lanugine mala, Castaneasque nuces, mea quas Amaryllis amabat: Addam ceroa pruna; honos erit huic quoque pomo Et vos, O lauri carpam, et te, proxima myrtus Sic positæ, quoniam suaves miscetis odores.

Within about three years he had observed that his wife, named Cecilia Pruna, and vulgarly la Cileta, had, on many occasions, in his house, performed such practices as these.

The plum-tree grafted on the nut exhibits what we may call a piece of impudence quite its own, for it produces a fruit that has all the appearance of the parent stock, together with the juice of the adopted fruit: in consequence of its being thus compounded of both, it is known by the name of “nuci-pruna.”[1776] Nut-prunes, as well as the peach, the wild plum,[1777] and the cerina, are often put in casks, and so kept till the crop comes of the following year.