bergamot

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝɡəˌmɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːɡəˌmɒt/

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

bergamot (countable and uncountable, plural bergamots)

1. A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. 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.
2. The fruit from the abovementioned tree
3. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
   • (Can we date this quote by William Cowper as well as title, page, and other details?)

     The better hand […] gives the nose its bergamot.

5. Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
   1. Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
   2. Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
6. A variety of pear.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

• wild bergamot

• Bergamot in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

From Bergamo

bergamot (usually uncountable, plural bergamots)

1. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɛr.ɣaːˈmɔt/

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• Hyphenation: ber‧ga‧mot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

bergamot f (plural bergamotten, diminutive bergamotje n)

1. bergamot (pear-shaped citrus fruit)

   Synonym: herenpeer

• bergamotboom
• bergamotolie
• bergamotpeer
• bergamotplant