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† pome-pear Obs.
Forms: 5 powmpere, 6 poumper, 7 pom-poire, pome-peare, 7–8 pompire.
[f. pome + pear n., after F. pomme poire, ‘a peare apple’ (Cotgr.), or med.L. pomum pirum.]
See quot. 1640.
c1440Promp. Parv. 411/2 Powmpere, frute, pomum pirum. 1530Palsgr. 257/2 Poumper, frute. 1601Holland Pliny I. 438 The Melapia: for their resemblance and participation of apples and peares together, as a man would say, Peare-apples, or pom-poires. 1617Rider Dict., A Pompire, or Pearemaine. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. xvi. lxxii. 1501 The Pome-peare, or Apple-peare, which is a small Peare, but round at both ends like an Apple, yet the tree is a Peare tree. |