Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Caraway

Latin, carum, from Caria in Asia Minor, whence the seeds were imported.

“Nay, you shall see my orchard, where in an arbour we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of caraways.” —Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., v. 3 (Justice Shallow to Falstaff).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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