Virgouleuse

English

Alternative forms

• virguleus (obsolete)

Etymology

From French virgouleuse, from Virgoulée, variant form of Villegoureix, a village in the Limousin province of France. Compare vergaloo.

Noun

Virgouleuse (plural Virgouleuses)

1. A variety of winter pear.
   • 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 231:

     Charles had stuffed his pockets with virguleus pears from the table and they ate these as they tramped through the streets which were running with the overflow of rain water from the open gutters.