A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Longavil, -ell, -al. [? From the F. place-name Longueville; the first husband of Mary of Lorraine, wife of King James V, was Duke of Longueville.] The name of a variety of pear, recorded as grown in Scotland from the 17th to the 19th century. —1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 68.
To Robert Rorie, gardiner, to buy … 4 pear imps, bargamond and longavell 1683 Reid Scots Gardner (1683) 88 (J).
Dwarfe pears on the quince, but no pear holds well on it that I have tryed, save red pears, achans and longavil 1693 Foulis Acc. Bk. 155.
For a longaval pear imp and crumockshawes
