beurré

Borrowed from French beurré.

beurré (plural beurrés)

1. Any of various pears with soft, juicy flesh, that seems to melt in the mouth.

   Beurré d'Anjou; Beurré Clairgeau; Beurré Hardy; Beurré Rance

   • 1854 September – 1855 January, [Elizabeth Gaskell], North and South. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1855, →OCLC:

     "There are a few brown beurrés against the south wall which are worth all foreign fruits and preserves. Run, Margaret, and gather us some."

• “beurré”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Bruree

• IPA^(key): /bœ.ʁe/

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beurré (feminine beurrée, masculine plural beurrés, feminine plural beurrées)

1. buttered
2. (informal) drunk

   Synonyms: (informal) bourré, ivre, saoul

• beurré comme un Petit Lu

beurré m (plural beurrés)

1. beurré (pear)

beurré (feminine beurrée, masculine plural beurrés, feminine plural beurrées)

1. past participle of beurrer

• “beurré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.