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bergamote.

bergamot, a pear cultivar

9 characters4 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt/
  1. bergamot, a pear cultivar

    feminine
  2. bergamot, a citrus cultivar

    feminine
  3. the scent of such a citrus used in perfumery

    feminine
  4. a bonbon treated with such a perfume

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian bergamotta, deemed a corruption of Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting originally a fattish kind of pear, whereafter the European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.

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