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Definition of Sesames
1. sesame [n] - See also: sesame
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sesames
Literary usage of Sesames
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Journal by National Council of Teachers of English (1919)
"... and so arranged that one selection lures on to another—then we may hope to
have collections which will be true open sesames to the treasures in books. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... the open-sesames of literature, which revealed alike to the dreaming and the
critical mind of modern Europe the beauty and extraordinary achievement of ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... of all "open sesames" to the arcana of French society fails the observer.
• The poet of the Tyroler Tragödie (Andreas Hofer). ..."
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