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saffron

[saf-ruhn] / ˈsæf rən /


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Along with the classics, the shop also offers bagels imbued with ingredients like saffron, Korean gochujang and miso.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

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

There were stalls with rugs and stalls with heaps of spices: gold turmeric and precious orange saffron.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2018

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

It thrives in a sandy loam or leaf soil, in a sunny part, and increases itself at the roots like the saffrons.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood

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




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