¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Halvah
1. a Turkish confection [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halvah
Literary usage of Halvah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States by Charles C. Moore, William Mark McKinney, United States, Jr Peter Kemper (1920)
"Turco-halvah Co., (CCA 2d Cir. 1917) 247 Fed. 487, 159 CCA 541, holding, however,
that the evidence was insufficient to establish the amount of the credit ..."
2. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler (1876)
"... pastes and candies of various flavours, and known by the name of halvah, little
cakes, and always the thin wafer-like bread which is eaten here. ..."
3. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"... both fresh and dried, as well as made into a flour, and mixed with water for
a beverage, or with wheat flour for a paste, called tut-halvah. ..."
4. Chemical Patents and Allied Patent Problems by Edward Thomas (1917)
"Loft, 4 Ban. and A. 495. A mortar may differ patentably from a paint. Plastic Slate
v. Moore, 1 Holmes 167. Compare Gordon v. Turko-halvah, 233 FR 430. ..."
5. Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis: In Company with the Late Rev. E by Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Edward Forbes (1847)
"... aged Turks, the one a seller of gun- flints, and the other a sweetmeat-man,
whose horse was laden with halvah and raisins brought from ..."
Other Resources:
