? Obs. Also 7 calvile, 8 calvil. [Fr.: of unknown origin (Littré).] A kind of apple.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 232. Apples … Pome Apis, Cour-pendue, Calvile of all sorts.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Apple, The White Calville, is white both within and without; its Taste is more delicious than that of the red, for which reason ’tis more valued.
1755. in Johnson (from Bailey); and in mod. Dicts.
