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bergamote

/bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt/

noun, feminine/bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt/plural: bergamotes

bergamot, a pear cultivar; bergamot, a citrus cultivar; the scent of such a citrus used in perfumery; a bonbon treated with such a perfume

Borrowed from Italian bergamotta, deemed a corruption of Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting originally a fattish kind of pear, whereafter the European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.

bergamote — French Dictionary | Passage