egriot

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English

Etymology

From French aigrette, griotte, formerly agriote. Compare aigre (“sour”).

Pronunciation

Noun

egriot (plural egriots)

  1. A kind of sour cherry.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      the cœur-cherry, which inclineth more to white, is sweeter than the red; but the egriot is more sour

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “egriot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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