vergaloue

English

Noun

vergaloue (plural vergaloues)

1. (archaic) virgalieu, a variety of pear.

References

• • 1824, Lydia Sigourney, Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, page 148:

    Jehoiakim also hastened to convey refreshments to Cuffee, who in turn presented him with some grafts from the Vergaloue, the Bennet, and the Winter Pear, eulogizing their respective merits; and not forgetting to add, that his Mistress had "eight bery large fine tree, most hundred year old."