Virgouleuse
English
Alternative forms
- virguleus (obsolete)
Etymology
From French virgouleuse, from Virgoulée, variant form of Villegoureix, a village in the Limousin province of France. Compare vergaloo.
Noun
Virgouleuse (plural Virgouleuses)
- A variety of winter pear.
- 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press 1999, p. 231:
- Charles had stuffed his pockets with virguleus pears from the table and they ate these as they tramped through the streets which were running with the overflow of rain water from the open gutters.
- 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press 1999, p. 231: