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† burlace, burlake, burlet
corruptions of Bourdelais, name of a variety of grape, cultivated in the 17th c., which long ago dropped out of cultivation, and its name along with it.
1629Parkinson Orchard vi. 663 The Burlet is a very great white Grape. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 234 A Catalogue of..excellent Fruit Trees; Vines, Raisin, Bursa⁓robe, Burlet. 1688Ray Hist. Plant. II. 1615 The Burlet Grape. 1737Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 3) s.v. Vitis, The Burdelais, vulgarly called Burlake. [1797Ibid. The Claret Grape, Bourdelais or Verjuice Grape.] 1755Johnson, Burlace; (whence in all subseq. Dicts.). |