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Meanings of bergamot in English

Portuguese
bergamota

Small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy.

bergamota
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Examples for "bergamot orange"
Examples for "bergamot orange"
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According to M. Galesio, these trees, less tender than the lemon and bergamot orange trees, freeze only at ten centesimal degrees below freezing point.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
Usage of bergamot in English
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He poured the tea, strong and redolent of the scent of bergamot.
Blameless
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Some bergamot, remember that's to be made mainly from the rind.
The Naked God
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No more were bergamot or southern-wood, although vegetable in their nature.
My Lady Ludlow
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Perfume with oil of bergamot, and apply three or four times a day.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
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My mother says Daddy Darwin has red bergamot i' his garden.
Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories
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My mother always says there's nothing like red bergamot to take to church.
Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories
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Lucy uses them for teas-lemonand wild bergamot, chamomile, anise hyssop.
The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
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Rub the musk with the bergamot, then add it to the soap, and beat up.
The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plan...
9
Its Earl Grey, being a blend of Assam and bergamot, really lends itself to puddings.
The Guardian
10
The writing on it was elegant and sloping and it smelled very faintly of bergamot.
Nanny mcphee and the big bang
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I keep mine on my desk, where the notes of cedarwood and bergamot waft softly.
The Irish Times
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Bay rum six ounces, aromatic spirits of ammonia half an ounce, bergamot oil six drops.
Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most R...
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This place is famous for its pomatum, gloves, wash-balls, perfumes, and toilette-boxes, lined with bergamot.
Travels through France and Italy
14
Black tea and bergamot (Earl Grey), slightly briny breakfast residue on tongue (smoked salmon).
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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Sift it into the melted cosmoline and stir until nearly cool, then add napthaline and oil bergamot.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
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A great round bed of "Robin-run-away," bergamot, that scented the air and attracted the humming-birds.
A Little Girl in Old New York
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