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ˈsycamore-tree = prec. (in various senses).
13..Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS. fol. ccxxvii.) Þis ilke Sicomours [sic] tre In wȝuche clomb vp Zachee. 1382Wyclif Luke xix. 4 He rennynge bifore, stiȝede in to a sycamoure [1388 sicomoure] tree. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 715/43 Hic cicomorus, a cycomyrtre. 1597Gerarde Herbal iii. cxii. 1300 The great Maple, not rightly called the Sycomore tree..is a stranger in England. a1600in Chappell Pop. Music (1855) I. 207 The poor soul sat sighing by a sicamore tree. 1611Bible Ps. lxxviii. 47 He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 413 Buttonwood is the popular name of the so-called Sycamore-tree (Platanus occidentalis). 1898Morris Austral Eng., Sycamore Tree... In New South Wales, the name is given to Brachyc[h]iton luridus. 1908R. M. Watson in Athenæum 4 Apr. 418/3 The west shone pale through the boughs of the sycamore tree As the rooks sailed home to their haunt in the dusky park. |