‖ glou-morceau
(glumɔrso)
Also glout-.
[A provincial Fr. name (Godefr. s.v. glout), lit. ‘tit-bit’.]
A kind of pear.
| 1859 Thompson Gardener's Assist. 483 Glou Morceau..a dessert pear of the highest excellence. 1860 Thoreau Autumn (1892) 95 Their excellence is in their flavor, which speaks to a grosser sense, they are glout-morceaux. 1897–8 Rivers Catal. Fruit-trees 8 Glou Morceau, a well-known and excellent melting pear. |