BERGAMOT, a species of citron, produced at first casually by an Italian's grafting a citron on the stock of a bergamot pear-tree, whence the fruit produced by this union participated both of the citron-tree and the pear-tree. The fruit has a fine taste and smell, and its essential oil is in high esteem as a perfume. The essence of
bergamot is also called essentia de cedro. It is extracted from the yellow rind of the fruit by first cutting it in small pieces, then immediately squeezing out the oil into a glass vessel.
BERGAMOT is also the denomination of a coarse tapestry, manufactured with flocks of silk, wool, cotton, hemp, ox, cow, or goats' hair, and supposed to have been invented by the people of Bergamo, in Italy.