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Definition of Saleps
1. salep [n] - See also: salep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saleps
Literary usage of Saleps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"Hall used Hugues SalePs version of the ten books (Paris, 1545); his copy (1555),
with his autograph dated 1556,is in the British Museum. 303. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1867)
"... 420 vegetables and salads; 40 palms; 32 varieties of arrowroot; 31 sugars; 40
saleps. Vinous drinks are obtained from 200 plants; aromatics from 266. ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... 420 vegetables and salads; 40 palms; 32 varieties of arrowroot; 31 sugars; 40
saleps. Vinous drinks are obtained from 200 plants; aromatics from 266. ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"But all the European saleps are far inferior to and considered only as indifferent
substitutes for that brought by commerce from the latter country, ..."
5. The Indian Forester (1887)
"This discovery removes royal salep entirely from the other saleps, and it would
appear that it is more like those which grow in Central Africa, ..."
6. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"... they do not yield any of the saleps of Bombay commerce ; these are all imported
from Persia, Cabul, and Northern India, and are probably obtained from ..."
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