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noun

Bergamot n.

(Bot.)

(a)

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.

(b)

A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

The essence or perfume made from the fruit.

A variety of pear.

A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. "The better hand... gives the nose its bergamot."

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).

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"Bergamot" Quotes from Famous Books

... originally produced by ingrafting a branch of a citron or lemon-tree upon the stock of a peculiar kind of pear, called the bergamot pear. ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... despair or rapture, with the most pathetic little grins and ogles; or repose, simpering at each other, under an arbour of pea-green crockery; or piping to pretty flocks that have just been washed with the best Naples in a stream of Bergamot. Gay's gay plan seems to me far pleasanter than that of Philips—his rival and Pope's—a serious and dreary idyllic Cockney; not that Gay's "Bumkinets and Hobnelias" are a whit more natural than the would-be ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... them may be used for ornament. A bouquet of the pale pink blossoms of thyme and the delicate flowers of marjoram, the fragrant sprigs of lemon balm mixed with the bright yellow umbels of sweet fennel, the finely divided leaves of rue and the long glassy ones of bergamot, is not only novel in appearance but in odor. In sweetness it excels even sweet peas and roses. Mixed with the brilliant red berries of barberry and multiflora rose, and the dark-green branches ...

— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... fop, "but since my lady returned to town the price of ambergris and bergamot and civet powders has mounted perilously, and the mercers are all too busy to be civil. When I sent my rascal this morning to buy the Secret White Water to Curl Gentlemen's Hair, on my life he was told he must wait for it, since new must be made, ...

— His Grace of Osmonde • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... Sir William Temple gives this list of his pears:—Blanquet, Robin, Rousselet, Pepin, Jargonel; and for autumn: Buree, Vertlongue, and Bergamot.] ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

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