callivances

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1959
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/12988

calavance n a species of bean is advertised commonly and sold under the name of _callivances_. Eggleston, in an article in the "Century Magazine" for 1894, mentions _"gallivances_ and potatoes" as given in 1782 among the products of Pennsylvania; and in the same year, in "A Complete Discovery of the State of Carolina," a list is made of several sorts of pulse grown in the colony, to wit, "beans, pease, _callavances_," etc. He is puzzled about the word, and supposed it to mean pumpkins, and to be from the Spanish _calabaza_ (gourd). But this would not be pulse. Probably it meant there, as it does now in Newfoundland, the small white bean, in contrast with the broad English bean. [see 'calavances'] 'cavalances'] a species of white bean is advertised commonly and PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story June 1959 Used I Used I Used I callivance, cavalance, cavalances Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Tue 10 Mar 2015