[Name of a town in Alsace.]
1. A variety of pear.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. iii. 352.
2. [perhaps of different origin.] A kind of fan, fashionable in Queen Anne’s time.
1727. Pope, &c. Art Sinking, 94. The bride … with an air divine her Colmar ply’d.
1729. [J. Bramston], Art of Politicks, 10.
| Think we that modern Words eternal are? | |
| Toupet, and Tompion, Cosins, and Colmar | |
| Hereafter will be call’d by some plain Man | |
| A Wig, a Watch, a Pair of Stays, a Fan. |
