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"ref": "1964, John Berryman, chapter 24, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 26:",
"text": "Beside himself, his possibilities; / salaaming hours of a half-blind morning / while the rainy lepers salaamed back,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1968, Jan Morris, chapter 17, in Pax Britannica, Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 379:",
"text": "The tea-planters’ houses of Ceylon […] were often surrounded by admirable lawns of coarse mountain grass, upon which the planters’ ladies enviably sat, buzzed about by harmless insects and salaamed by passing serfs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:",
"text": "Nantwich made a kind of diving or salaaming motion with his hands, and the man nodded and smiled.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform a salaam to (someone)."
],
"links": [
[
"perform",
"perform"
],
[
"salaam",
"salaam#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, transitive) To perform a salaam to (someone)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːm"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "salam"
}
],
"word": "salaam"
}
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