sesamum

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sesamum

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin sēsamum. Doublet of sesame.

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archaic, uncountable sesame While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some will

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@misc{sesamum_2026,
  title = {sesamum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sesamum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}