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‖ calville ? Obs.
Also 7 calvile, 8 calvil.
[Fr.: of unknown origin (Littré).]
A kind of apple.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 232 Apples..Pome Apis, Cour-pendue, Calvile of all sorts. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Apple, The White Calville, is white both within and without; its Taste is more delicious than that of the red, for which reason 'tis more valued. 1755in Johnson (from Bailey); and in mod. Dicts. |