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There’s this store in Silver Lake that I found called Anonymous Ism.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

Ism, izm, n. any distinctive doctrine, theory, or practice—usually in disparagement.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The word "Ishmah," affixed to the northern part of the route, is evidently the Hismá plateau, and not, as I had supposed it to be, the Jebel Tayyib Ism.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

This remarkable block appeared to me the tallest we had hitherto seen; it is probably the "Tayyibat Ism, 6000," of the Hydrographic Chart.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Its approach from the south is clean; and the western opening is protected by the tall screen of coast cliffs, the Jebel el-Ginái, whose deep-black porphyritic gorge seemingly prolongs that of Midianite Tayyib Ism.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir