Bigaroon.

Incorrectly spelt Bicaroon. A white-heart cherry. (French, bigarreau; Latin, bigarella; i.c. bis varellus, double-varied, red and white mixed. The French word, bigarrure, means party-colour, bigarrer).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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