Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of salmon.

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  • noun A kind of unleavened bread in Iraq.
  • noun Obsolete form of salmon.

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Examples

  • The falafel place made its sandwiches on samoun, a baguette-like bread that Nawal Nasrallah refers to as a “domesticated version” of French and Italian bread, and slathered them with mayonnaise.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The falafel place made its sandwiches on samoun, a baguette-like bread that Nawal Nasrallah refers to as a “domesticated version” of French and Italian bread, and slathered them with mayonnaise.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The name “salmo” has ancient European roots tracing back to Latin, Middle English (samoun), and Old French (saumon).

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The name “salmo” has ancient European roots tracing back to Latin, Middle English (samoun), and Old French (saumon).

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The name “salmo” has ancient European roots tracing back to Latin, Middle English (samoun), and Old French (saumon).

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The name “salmo” has ancient European roots tracing back to Latin, Middle English (samoun), and Old French (saumon).

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  •  821.] [Footnote 199:? for _bellies_: see ‘the baly of þe fresch samoun,’ l.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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