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“Zirbájah” = meat dressed with vinegar, cumin-seed
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_Cymini sectores_: 'splitters of cumin-seed,' i.e. what we should call
A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922
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Then she went away and I saw no more of her for ten days, at the end of which time, she came in to me and said, 'O black-a-vice, I will not make peace with thee, till I have punished thee for eating ragout of cumin-seed, without washing thy hands!'
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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Thereupon I swooned away and she sprinkled the severed parts with a powder which staunched the blood; and I said, 'Never again will I eat of ragout of cumin-seed without washing my hands forty times with potash, forty times with galingale and forty times with soap!'
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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'What makes thee think me mad?' asked I. 'O madman,' answered she, 'what made thee eat of ragout of cumin-seed, without washing thy hands?
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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Meanwhile, they set before me a tray of food, on which was a basin containing a ragout of fricasseed fowls 'breasts dressed with cumin-seed and flavoured with sugar and rose-water, mixed with musk, and many another dish, such as amazed the wit; and by Allah, I did not hesitate, but fell upon the ragout and ate my fill of it.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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The doctors of the law attended, and when the readers had made an end of reading, the table was spread, and amongst other things they set before us a ragout flavoured with cumin-seed.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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Boil the lentils better, thou miserly steward; take heed lest thou chop thy fingers, when thou'rt splitting cumin-seed.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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"Zirbájah" = meat dressed with vinegar, cumin-seed
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The jintan or cumin-seed (cuminum) is sometimes an ingredient in curries.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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