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  • noun Plural form of sesame.

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Examples

  • Mrs Morden gave me back Ivan's open - sesames and requested me, in my turn, to sign an authorisation for her to act for the brewery.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • I made a ginger-lemon snow pea stir fry the other day that was good enough to make you forget everything else on the table, and I made rice mixed with black sesames, sesame oil, and crumbled nori.

    Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Tart Mercedes 2009

  • I made a ginger-lemon snow pea stir fry the other day that was good enough to make you forget everything else on the table, and I made rice mixed with black sesames, sesame oil, and crumbled nori.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mercedes 2009

  • Having cut some bulbs or squill, boil in water, and when well boiled, throw this away, and having poured in more water, boil until it appear to the touch soft and well-boiled; then triturate finely and mix roasted cumin, and white sesames, and young almonds pounded in honey, form into an electuary and give; and afterwards sweet wine.

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

  • Steamed pork buns, fried pork buns, dumplings of every sort (shrimp, pork, some sort of chive one, etc), noodle dishes, rice, sesame balls (poor sesames!)

    Friday comics, Saturday Morning Horror yendi 2003

  • Mrs Morden gave me back Ivan's open - sesames and requested me, in my turn, to sign an authorisation for her to act for the brewery.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • Vast wealth -- iron, gold, copper, cobalt, titanium, nickel, uranium -- magic sesames to power in the second half of the twentieth century!

    America, Britain and Canada—The "A B C" of Destiny 1953

  • She raps smartly on the door, and open sesames echo to every imagination.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

  • They are not general "open sesames" which, learned in one situation, will apply with indiscriminate miraculousness to a variety of others.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • My mouth waters even when I think of the delicious strudels filled with sesames and plenty of raisins and shiros!

    Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager

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