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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bergamot \Ber"ga*mot\ (b[~e]r"g[.a]*m[o^]t), n. [F. bergamote, fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg arm[=u]di a lord's pear.]
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(Bot.)
A tree of the Orange family ( Citrus bergamia), 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.
A variety of mint ( Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
A variety of pear.
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A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot.
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A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.
Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family ( Monarda fistulosa).
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, from a Celtic or Ligurian berg "mountain," cognate with the identical Germanic word.\n
\nEarlier (1610s) as a kind of pear deemed especially luscious, in this sense ultimately a Romanic folk-etymologization from Turkish beg-armudi "prince's pear" or "prince of pears," influenced in form by the other word, but probably not from it (the town is on the opposite end of the peninsula from where the pear grows). Also used of garden plants of the mint order with a smell like that of oil of bergamot.
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 or perfume made from the fruit. 3 A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. 4 Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent: 5 # (taxlink Mentha × piperita species noshow=1), nothosubspecies ''citrata'', more commonly known as (vern bergamot mint pedia=1) 6 #(taxlink Monarda didyma species noshow=1), also known as (vern American bergamot pedia=1) or bee balm. 7 A variety of pear. 8 A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; said to have been invented in Bergamo, Italy. Etymology 2
n. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
WordNet
n. small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy [syn: bergamot orange, Citrus bergamia]
Wikipedia
Bergamot (pronounced RP , GenAm ) may refer to:
- The Bergamot orange
- Bergamot essential oil
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Monarda, genus of herbs of similar odor to the Bergamot orange; in particular
- Monarda didyma, called Bergamot, Scarlet Beebalm, Scarlet Monarda, Oswego Tea, or Crimson Beebalm
- Monarda fistulosa, called Wild bergamot or Bee balm
- Mentha citrata, called Bergamot mint
- Citrus limetta, called sweet lime or sweet lemon
- HMS Bergamot, one of the ships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
- Bergamot Station, an art gallery facility in Santa Monica, California, USA
- Bergamot (Los Angeles Metro station), a future station on the light-rail Expo Line, adjacent to the art gallery facility in Santa Monica, California, USA
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.