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"text": "Cherokee \"broadswords'\" and \"dog-heads,\" or Iroquois wedding breads (paired like dumbbells) might be eaten and described by visitors, but apparently were not adapted by colonial farmers other than a few intermarried pioneers.",
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"ref": "2013 January 31, Andrew Smith, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, →ISBN, page 701:",
"text": "These breads were noted by early English explorers of the East Coast and continue to be made as Cherokee broadswords, Navajo kneel-down bread, and other dishes. Tamale pie is one of a group of American foods invented outside the ethnic[…]",
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"ref": "2014 January 7, Joseph Bruchac, On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:",
"text": "Then took two broadsword corn dumplings from the basket Mother left out on the porch last night. Ate them as I walked our line of rail fence after letting out the cows from the barn. The dumplings were delicious, and I wished I had[…]",
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"ref": "2014 October 30, Robert J. Conley, Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 143:",
"text": "Well, after awhile we just sat right down there on the ground by that fire beside the creek, and we ate some of those broadswords, hot and fresh, and I tell you, that was the best bean bread I ever ate.",
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"sense": "longsword with a broad cutting blade",
"word": "ब्रॉडसॉर्ड"
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"ref": "1988, Jeffery Deaver, chapter 8, in Manhattan Is My Beat, London: Hodder, published 2016, →ISBN, page 79:",
"text": "She’d met her first black knight—a pock-faced man in his sixties, wearing an ugly brown hat—and escaped from him without being broadsworded to death.",
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"ref": "1993, Edward Sanders, “[An East Village Hippie in King Arthur’s Court] Arthur Flips Out”, in Hymn to the Rebel Cafe, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, →ISBN, page 190:",
"text": "He broadsworded one of his dogs in exuberance and it lay there whimpering till it expired.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1993, Greg Child, Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 17:",
"text": "He took his steel-edged ruler, screamed and then broadsworded the snake into two equal lengths.",
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