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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of salaam.

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Examples

  • "salaamed" than the Hispanic teenagers who tried to distract him on the way to mosque one evening: "Look at this fool," they said.

    Killing the Buddha Ashley Makar 2009

  • She nodded and salaamed and backed away from the group, returning to Dave and Mike.

    Lipstick in Afghanistan Roberta Gately 2010

  • King turned about instantly to face her, but he salaamed so low that she could not have seen his expression had she tried.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • She ran me to earth just as I was stowing my kit; I salaamed respectfully, and she fixed me with a glittering eye and demanded if I spoke English.

    Fiancée 2010

  • The guide salaamed, half-mockingly, half-wondering at such eloquence, pausing in the passage to point into the side-caves that debouched to either hand.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • I just salaamed and saluted and was back in my saddle in a second, while they called up the next man for his prize, but as I wheeled my pony away I saw that Mason was looking after me with a puzzled smile on his face, and saying something to the officer next to him.

    Fiancée 2010

  • She didn't look like a slut, somehow, and when I asked what she wanted she came quickly up the steps, salaamed, and held out a little leather pouch.

    Fiancée 2010

  • And with that she salaamed again, and slipped down the steps.

    Fiancée 2010

  • What he did see, as he faced that way, was that each of his men salaamed low and covered his face with both hands as he entered.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • When the youth Ibrahim saw the street, he knew it by the description the bookseller had given him; so he salaamed to the man, who returned his salutation and bidding him welcome, made him sit down and asked him of his case.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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