† 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.
| 1629 Parkinson Orchard vi. 663 The Burlet is a very great white Grape. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 234 A Catalogue of..excellent Fruit Trees; Vines, Raisin, Bursa⁓robe, Burlet. 1688 Ray Hist. Plant. II. 1615 The Burlet Grape. 1737 Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 3) s.v. Vitis, The Burdelais, vulgarly called Burlake. [1797 Ibid. The Claret Grape, Bourdelais or Verjuice Grape.] 1755 Johnson, Burlace; (whence in all subseq. Dicts.). |