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English
Etymology
From French jargonelle, diminutive of jargon.
Pronunciation
Noun
jargonelle (plural jargonelles)
- 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: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.
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