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- noun aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces
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I lub teh flavur ob teh cardamum,but if you bite into a hole wun
Hi-efishunzy edishun - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Hills of Sanskrit literature where grow the cardamum creeper and the
My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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Then a cardamum to take away the acrid after-taste.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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After eating a cardamum, and touching with our pocket-handkerchief some cotton on which had been dropped otto of roses, we ascended to the house-top, and found it built upon much the same plan as Cashmere Mull's, without its antique carving and quaint appearance.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home Laurence Oliphant 1858
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The others with the leaves of the puar or cardamum, which are again very thinly covered with iju.
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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Our huts were generally thatched with the puar or wild cardamum leaf, which grows in great abundance on the banks of the rivers in this part of the country.
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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The coriander, called katumbar, and the cardamum, puah lako, grow in abundance.
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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It has likewise plenty of spices, as pepper, ginger, mirabolans, cardamum, cassia, and others, also many kinds of fruits unlike ours, and much sweeter.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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Ingredients: top quality coffee blend 100\% Arabica, herbs and spices with larger quantity of cardamum, cinnamon and other Oriental spices.
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