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Examples
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“You seem to be a fan already,” Ric teased me, referring to my tales of Chez Shezmou while he was driving.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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That wine-loving Shezmou dude had a double role in ancient Egyptian mythology.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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The quick start-up forced our foreign friend Shezmou to employ one of the dimmer bulbs on the marquee.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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“Meet my business partner, Shezmou,” I said while she corrected her impulse.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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Shezmou was working his grape press, the sinewy arm and back muscles of his cinnamon-hued torso gleaming with enough sweat to put him in a well-oiled Mr. Universe contest.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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At least Shezmou regarded me as only a liberating goddess, nothing personal.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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You did sign Mr. Shezmou to a personal contract, did you not?
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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What I saw was tall, dark-haired, and not unhandsome, but unfortunately, it was not my indebted demigod, Shezmou.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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“The Police is a music icon,” Grizelle purred to Shezmou.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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Thus Delilah has wrought, and I, Shezmou, deliver, reversing our roles as my own nature must also move from wine to balm, and eternal death to eternal life.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Shezmou
"To the Egyptians, moreover, incense not only was pleasing to the gods but also came from the gods. Dating from much the same time is the famous manuscript of the Shipwrecked Sailor, a briny yarn of a castaway lost in the 'land of incense'--Arabia? Somalia?--where he is confronted by a terrifying serpent god who threatens to burn him to ashes. To appease his wrath, the terrified sailor offers the god a range of unidentifiable aromatics: 'I will cause ibi, hekenu, iudeneb, and khesait to be brought to thee, and incense of the temples, wherewith every god is content,' pleads the terrified sailor. But his offer is a case of coals to Newcastle, the god replying with a laugh that it is he who made them. So central were these notions to the Egyptian concept of worship that there was a professional class whose job it was to prepare the sacred oils and unguents. Among the bewildering, animal-headed pantheon of the Egyptians there was even a god of perfumers, Shezmou."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 237
December 6, 2016