Lexicographical Neighbors of Kababs
Literary usage of Kababs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the Countries Adjoining the Mountain by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1842)
"... Fish—Poisonous Snake—Wild Region—Mountain Defiles—kababs—Classical Meal—Geology
and Vegetation—Villages of Little Tibet—Slier Singh—Diplomacy—Cunning of ..."
2. Persia as it is: Being Sketches of Modern Persian Life and Character by Charles James Wills (1886)
"Diet of the labourer—Fruit as food—Cook-shops—kababs—Food of the wealthy—Silent
dinners—Koval Persian Sherbet—Sherbet-spoons—Sherbets. ..."
3. In Russian Turkestan: A Garden of Asia and Its People by Annette M. B. Meakin (1903)
"The ancient hag who introduced us to the ladies' household is busy preparing
kababs for dinner. Let us watch her a minute. First she chops up some mutton ..."
4. War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt (1919)
"Next I proceeded to a meat-shop and ordered some lamb kababs ... The customer
spreads his former purchases, and when his kababs are ready he eats his dinner ..."
5. Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 by Charles White (1846)
"Turkish culinary productions are numerous and diversified. Among these kababs,
and orman ... kababs are of two kinds—sada (plain) and ..."
6. The Kitab-i-Yamini: Historical Memoirs of the Amír Sabaktagín, and the by James Reynolds (1858)
"... and occupied himself in merriment, and he felt a wish for some roasted kababs
of beef, and they brought an ox before him, and killed it, and made kababs ..."
7. Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshâwur: And from Thence to Câbul, with by William Barr (1844)
"As we went through the city we resolved to taste the far-famed " kababs," and
accordingly adjourning to a cook's shop, where we paid a couple of annas, ..."
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