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- noun Plural form of
salaam . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
salaam .
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Examples
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; they shout; they gesticulate; the captain salaams; the steersman waves his hand; all eyes are turned towards the shore.
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Then, the meeting over, they moved out into the darkness with graceful "salaams," and with the promise of one of their number to accompany us on the morrow.
My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel
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Government House servants who had been in Lord Lansdowne's employment arrived in a body to offer their "salaams" to my sister.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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He prostrated himself in the dust before us repeatedly, with endless "salaams," instantly changing his deep sorrow into mad joy.
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The "salaams" show distinct realms of experience infusing and enlivening one another, as life in Turkey is brought fruitfully to bear on the English country house.
Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer – review 2011
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Transplanted Wahabi women, black-gloved, clad head-to-toe black abbayas, faces masked by black niqabs, snatch the recordings, nodding brief salaams.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Bitter Medicine: Islamist Extremism at the Bedside MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Transplanted Wahabi women, black-gloved, clad head-to-toe black abbayas, faces masked by black niqabs, snatch the recordings, nodding brief salaams.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Bitter Medicine: Islamist Extremism at the Bedside MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Transplanted Wahabi women, black-gloved, clad head-to-toe black abbayas, faces masked by black niqabs, snatch the recordings, nodding brief salaams.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Bitter Medicine: Islamist Extremism at the Bedside MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Transplanted Wahabi women, black-gloved, clad head-to-toe black abbayas, faces masked by black niqabs, snatch the recordings, nodding brief salaams.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Bitter Medicine: Islamist Extremism at the Bedside MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Transplanted Wahabi women, black-gloved, clad head-to-toe black abbayas, faces masked by black niqabs, snatch the recordings, nodding brief salaams.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Bitter Medicine: Islamist Extremism at the Bedside MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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