jargonelle

English

Etymology

From French jargonelle, diminutive of jargon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒɑːɡəˈnɛl/

Noun

jargonelle (plural jargonelles)

1. A variety of pear.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 92:

     A jargonell pear-tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet, and flower-plot of a rood in extent, in front, and a kitchen-garden behind; […] announced the warm and cordial comforts which Old England, even at her most northern extremity, extends to her meanest inhabitants.

   • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 27, in North and South‎^[1]:

     She craves for fruit,—she has a constant fever on her; but jargonelle pears will do as well as anything, and there are quantities of them in the market.

Translations

variety of pear

• French: cuisse madame
• Scots: queez-maddam