Also 7 bargamot, bergamy, -amote, -ume, burgamet, -my, 7–8 burgamot. [a. F. bergamotte, ad. It. bergamotta, app. a popular perversion of Turkish beg-armūdi ‘prince’s pear, Bergamot’; cf. the German name Fürstenbirne.] A fine kind of pear. Also attrib.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Countr. Farm, 417. The best … perrie is made of … Bargamot.
1677. Grew, Anat. Plants, IV. III. ii. § 1. A Burgamy, or other soft and sweet Pear.
c. 1680. Crys of London, in Bagford Ball., I. 115. Do you want any damsons or Bergume Pare?
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 127. Bergamotes and pounder Pears.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 48. A pelting shower of stony bergamots.
1868. Longf., Falc. Federigo, 210. The juicy bergamot.
