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salaam

[suh-lahm] / səˈlɑm /


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Among the highlights of the show was La Bohème, a salaam to the Parisian neighbourhood Montmartre – and an Aznavour signature tune.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2018

Villagers greeted his mother, Raja Begam, with a respectful salaam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2017

On Wednesday, the Kennedy Center named a half-dozen celebrities who will skewer and salaam before the die-hard stand-up comedian and retired “Tonight Show” host.

From Washington Post

Gordon loves the “We’re not worthy” line that Wayne and sidekick Garth salaam to Cooper in the film.

From Newsweek

Saint Sarah drifts in and kisses Auntie Fatima three times, saying salaam.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

The book's only egregious fault is its beginning: there, the author salaams toward Oxford, Miss., as almost every new Southern writer has done for two decades.

From Time Magazine Archive

I say salaams to Nuah and good-bye to Tats and lie on the couch with my eyes wide open.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

She follows me to the door, so I turn and kiss salaams on her cheeks, to disarm her from further questions.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

There were salaams from the benches as people I knew from masjid inquired about Mama and Baba, told me that du'as had been made for their health, and asked if I needed anything.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Okay, give my salaams to your parents, and I will talk to you later.”

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

Italians still salaamed to his face on screens, his name on walls, but there were certain new mental reservations in their reverence.

From Time Magazine Archive

One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a Mecca to which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The horses moved, the carriage passed close to me, and again I gazed at this mighty sovereign, while the Eastern pilgrims salaamed to the ground.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens

“Now it will not be necessary to try,” said Miss Minchin, acidly, as Ram Dass salaamed her out of the room. . . . . . .

From A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In desperation, newsmen formed a crescent on Rita's lawn, fell to their knees, salaaming and pleading.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Merciful one, be not wroth with the meanest of thy slaves," said Ahmed, salaaming humbly.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

See, how the fissures in the boulders yonder seem to sympathise with the gaps in the terrace walls: the cyclamen leaves in the one are salaaming the cyclamen flowers in the other.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

After salaaming to him, she looked at her pet.

From The Taming of the Jungle by Dr. C. W. Doyle

"Enter, my lord," the man said, salaaming deeply.

From At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty


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