calamus
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In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011
Calumet is an Old Norman word for chalumeau, reed, pipe, a diminutive from Lat. calamus.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
She sat her down therefore and took up her pen, or, as our ancestors would then have said, her calamus.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
The odours of calamus and myrrh and camphor from strange continents mingled with the faint perfume of the dried rose leaves and the scent-bags of English lavender.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Theo. Hampe
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein
We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.
He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
This contains "oleum calami," and the bitter principle "acorin."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
This should be Fort Clark, not Fort Leavenworth—an evident lapsus calami.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
