pearmain
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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman parmain, peremain et al., Middle French parmain, permain (“type of pear or apple”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
pearmain (plural pearmains)
- (obsolete) A type of pear.
- Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.ii.1.1:
- Sweet fruits are best, as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which Laurentius extols as having a peculiar property against this disease .
- 1826 June 30, Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer, Volume 4 , page 385,
- If it were not so, why, for instance, has not the pearmain — a better apple than the Baldwin or any other Massachusetts winter apple now known to me — been propagated as extensively, and brought in plenty to our markets?
- 1833, John Claudius Loudon, editor, Art. VII: London Horticutural Society and Garden: Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, volume IX, page 727:
- Apples: Drap d'or, Barcelona pearmain; […] .