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Carme

[kahr-mee]
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noun Astronomy.
  1. a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
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  • How Ude and Carme would have disdained this kind of cookery!

    Ars Recte Vivende

    George William Curtis

  • This much is certain, that I won the wig by a carme, which gave me twelve points.

  • Carme, said the prince, your cookery will be the death of me; see how I am suffering from indigestion.

  • Carme was a friend of the illustrious Villeroux, famed partly as Mirabeaus cook, but chiefly for his courage and adventures.

    Old and New Paris, v. 1

    Henry Sutherland Edwards

  • Carme, therefore, overcome by his feelings, accepted an unprecedented salary from Baron Rothschild and settled in Paris.

    The Art of Entertaining

    M. E. W. Sherwood

British Dictionary definitions for carme

Carme1

noun
  1. Greek myth a nymph who was one of Diana's attendants and mother of Britomaris by Jupiter
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Carme2

noun
  1. a small outer satellite of the planet Jupiter with a retrograde orbit
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