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Definition of Salaaming
1. salaam [v] - See also: salaam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salaaming
Literary usage of Salaaming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches from Santalistan by Mathew Andreas Pederson (1913)
"Imagine my mortification when on alighting from the train our syce comes up to
us salaaming very politely, arrayed in one of my castaway motheaten, ..."
2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"(salaaming.) Nizer as me. SHARPLESS. (Looking from one to the other.) Couldn't
be nicer! . . . (He salaams profoundly—then all salaam. ) MADAME BUTTERFLY. ..."
3. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1863)
"The head man came trembling, salaaming and prostrating himself as a suppliant.
The oftener I told him, both in his own language and in the Assamese, ..."
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