| \BLET-ing\ | noun
1. the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained. | | Quotes | … the strange fruit was not good if eaten before ageing and bletting, when its taste became like chocolate.
-- Leslie Forbes, Waking Raphael, 2003 | | Origin | | Bletting comes from the French word blet meaning "overripe." It entered English in the 1830s. | |
