† palourn.
Obsolete (historical in later use).
Any of various kinds of cockle, mussel, or other (esp. edible) bivalve mollusc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves
cockOE
cockle1311
conch?1527
palour1589
conchyle1610
bivalvular1677
bivalve1684
nut-mussel1705
concha1755
cuckolda1757
Acephala1802
pullet1803
ciliograde1835
conchifer1835
acephalan1840
acephal1845
bivalvian1863
pelecypod1875
tea-clam1883
steamer clam1909
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > other edible molluscs
musseleOE
palour1589
ormer1637
mutton-fish1830
pipia1837
abalone1850
moule1867
toheroa1873
steamer clam1909
praire1929
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > member of (mussel)
palour1589
sand-mussel1681
pearl shell1781
mytiloid1890
kuku1905
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > member of
musseleOE
palour1589
pearl mussel1607
hena1613
horse-mussel1626
clam1672
clamp1672
pearl shell1781
glam1797
naiad1829
naid1854
unionid1861
zebra mussel1866
hackleback1899
maple leaf1908
monkey-face1936
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle)
cockOE
cockle1311
palour1589
urchin cockle1688
pectuncle1748
cuckolda1757
toheroa1873
pipi1895
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1722 A pallour, a shell fish.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 443 The Palours [Fr. les Pelordes; L. pelorides] also doe mollifie and soften the bellie.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Clonisse [read clouisse], the little, sharpe, and muddie cockle, tearmed, a Palour.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lx. 246 They give him Lampreys with Hippocras sawce..Chevins..Pallours [Fr. palourdes]..Lobsters Froggs.
1880 Appletons' Jrnl. Jan. 36/2 The fishes which, in the English translation [of Rabelais], are called sleeves, gracious lords, jegs, precks, botitoes, pallours, smys, and chevins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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