bonarets, bonarate
Erroneous adaptations of the Russian Baranetz, the Scythian Lamb, a fabulous plant. See barometz.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. (1641) 86/1 True Beasts, fast in the ground still sticking, Feeding on grass..Such as those Bonarets in Scythia bred Of slender seeds, and with green fodder fed. 1621 Lodge Summ. Du Bartas ii. 33 Bonarate, which is as much to say as a little Lambe. |