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calavance ? Obs.|ˈkæləvæns|
Forms: 7 garvance, caravance, 8 calla-, callevance, callvanse, kalavansa, 8 callivancy, 8– calli-, calavance.
[Orig. garvance, caravance, a. Sp. garbanzo chick-pea, according to Larramendi ad. Basque garbantzu, f. garau seed, corn + antzu dry. (Diez says the question of derivation from Gr. ἐρέβινθος chick-pea is not worth consideration; though the Pg. form ervanço suggests connexion with the Gr.) Calavance appears to have come into Eng. through some foreign lang. which changed r into l.]
A name for certain varieties of pulse, as Dolichos barbadensis, D. sinensis, etc.
1620Cocks's Diary II. 311 (Y.) They make their provition in aboundance..garvances, or small peaze or beanes. 1767Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126/2 Orders of his Majesty in council..Importation into this Kingdom of oats..peas, beans, tares, callivancies. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 246 Rice, callevances, and water-melons. Ibid. 255 To bring away the maize and callavances. 1779Forrest New Guinea 104 Abounding with kalavansas (beans), but having no rice. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay vi, Salt fish and calavances, for such was our cargo. c1880Sir J. Hooker in Yule Gloss. s.v., When I was in the Navy, haricot beans were in constant use as a substitute for potatoes, and, in Brazil and elsewhere were called Calavances. |