bergamot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy
    bergamot orange; Citrus bergamia.

WordNet

Ber"ga*mot noun
Etymology
F. bergamote, fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg armdi a lord's pear.
Definitions
  1. . (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).
  2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
  3. A variety of pear. Johnson.
  4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
    The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper
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  5. 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.

Webster 1913