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Caraway

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Latin, carum, from Caria in Asia Minor, whence the seeds were imported.

“Nay, you shall see my orchard, where in an arbour we will eat a last year’s pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of caraways.”—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., v. 3 (Justice Shallow to Falstaff).

 

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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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