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bigarreau
[ big-uh-roh, big-uh-roh ]
noun
- a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
bigarreau
/ ˌbɪɡəˈrəʊ; ˈbɪɡəˌrəʊ /
noun
- any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bigarreau1
1620–30; < French, equivalent to bigarr ( é ) variegated (past participle of bigarrer, perhaps bi ( s ) twice ( bis 1 ) + -garrer, verbal derivative of Middle French garre of two colors; of obscure origin) + -eau noun suffix (earlier -el < Latin -ellus )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bigarreau1
C17: from French, from bigarré mottled
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Example Sentences
In 1909, a Smith was listed, with Smith's Bigarreau as a synonym.
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Elkhorn has served its day and is now being rapidly superseded by other cherries of the Bigarreau group to which it belongs.
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Though of the Bigarreau group the flesh is too tender to well withstand harvesting, shipping and the brown-rot.
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White Bigarreau is a cherry of the past, having been considered one of the good sorts of a century ago.
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Windsor is the standard late Bigarreau and one of the most profitable of the hard-fleshed cherries grown in New York.
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