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bergamot
Alternative clues for the word bergamot
- Pear-shaped citrus fruit
- Small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery
- Pear got cooked with bream
- Oil from a citrus fruit used to flavour Earl Grey tea - to grab me
- Small tree with pear-shaped fruit — get Rambo (anag)
- Work unit advanced into turned over crypt for essential oil
- Small tree with pear-shaped fruit - get Rambo
Word definitions for bergamot in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of citrus tree, also its fruit, both similar to bitter orange, and the essence prepared from the oil of the rind of the fruit, 1690s, from French bergamote (17c.), from Italian bergamotta , named for Bergamo , town in Italy. The name is Roman Bergamum ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy [syn: bergamot orange , Citrus bergamia ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A tree of the orange family ((taxlink Citrus bergamia species noshow=1)), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. 2 The essence ...
Usage examples of bergamot.
With all this activity, the neighbors in Bergamot Street were starting to talk.
Sianadh had hired a carriage and driver, which contraption was ogled by the neighbors when it stopped at the door, carriages being a rarity in Bergamot Street.
Meanwhile, the move from Bergamot Street to Clove Street had to be made quicklyto this purpose, everything had been boxed in advance.
All seemed to be going well, but as the cart turned the corner out of Bergamot Street, Muirne abruptly jerked bolt upright.
Delicate, beautiful crimson bergamot like burst pincushions in the herb bed.
The succulent flesh, scented with bergamot, capers and oregano, was the kind of dish whereby gastronomes set their standards.
And in the pot not a chamber pot, mind you is tea flavored with bergamot leaves.
Blend tea, which was mixed secretly in Canton with exact proportions of tea and bergamot peel to give a clean, fruity taste.
Paisley drops around, with oil of bergamot on his hair, and sits on the other side of Mrs.
Delicate, beautiful crimson bergamot like burst pincushions in the herb bed.
The succulent flesh, scented with bergamot, capers and oregano, was the kind of dish whereby gastronomes set their standards.
I rapped to call the bees to order as if they were unruly scholars, or waved them away from their riots over the ink, which I had bought at the Landing store, and discovered to be scented with bergamot, as if to refresh the labors of anxious scribes.
There were nine altogether: essence of orange blossom, lime oil, attars of rose and clove, extracts of jasmine, bergamot and rosemary, musk tincture and storax balm, all quickly plucked down and set at the ready on the edge of the table.
The chief constituents of the oil are linalool and its acetic ester, linalyl acetate, which is also the characteristic ingredient of oil of bergamot and is present in English oil of Lavender to the extent of 7 to 10 per cent.
This Mint has a very pleasant, aromatic, lemon-like odour, somewhat resembling that of the Bergamot Orange, or that of the Oswego Tea (Monarda didyma), also called Bergamot, and its leaves like those of the latter can be employed in pot pourri.