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Longueville|lɔ̃gviːl| Also Longevil. [Prob. from the surname Longueville; for its existence in Scotland cf. Henry's Wallace x. 789.] The name of a kind of pear.
1683J. Reid Scots Gardener (1756) 101 No Pear holds well on it [the quince], that I have tried, excepting the Red Pear, Achan, and Longevil. 1817P. Neill Horticulture in Edin. Encycl. (1830) XI. 211/2 The Longueville is very generally spread over the northern part of Britain, where aged trees of it exist in the neighbourhood of ancient monasteries. |