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saffron

[saf-ruhn] / ˈsæf rən /


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We hovered over saffron tea surrounded by other young Southern Californians, and we looked like friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

Leading the procession has been Bhikkhu Pannakara, a Vietnamese monk whose saffron sash is adorned with sheriff badges from the many counties that have hosted them and secured the roads.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

Next came a Hokkaido scallop paired with grilled corn, saffron, and pork belly, a dish that felt unmistakably summery: rich, sweet, and sunlit.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

It’s really good for bits, like when you’re in need of saffron, or pasta and tomato sauce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

He makes saffron rice pudding, stirring patiently, pulling the pot from the fire with a troubadour’s timing.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Costumes are colored tights in purples, greens, saffrons, with unobtrusive matching jackets.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

Higher the waves rolled—phosphorescent green and iridescent violet, weird copperous yellows and metallic saffrons and a shimmer of glittering ash of rose—then wavered, split and formed into gigantic, sparkling, marching curtains of splendor.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

On that evening, I remember, the reds and saffrons in the sky were of an astonishing richness.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

The effect was exquisite, the window a veritable masterpiece, glowing, flaming, and burning with a hundred tints and colours—opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris

How quickly the subtle browns and saffrons and vermilions fade!

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld




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