‖ mousseron
(musrɔ̃)
Forms: 7 muceron, 8 (erron. in Ash) mousgeron, 7– mousseron.
[Fr.: see mushroom.]
A white mushroom, common in woods, pastures, etc., Agaricus prunulus.
| a 1655 Sir T. T. de Mayerne Archimag. Anglo-Gall. xx. (1658) 19 You may also adde thereunto [sc. the pasty] Mucerons. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Mousseron, a kind of white Mushroom. 1736 Bailey Househ. Dict. 463 Mix all well together with parsly, chibbols, mousserons, common mushrooms [etc.]. 1887 Hay Brit. Fungi 66 Agaricus prunulus; Clitopilus prunulus: The Mousseron. |