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Carme

[kahr-mee]
noun Astronomy.
  1. a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
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Historical Examples of carme

  • 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, one of the greatest of French cooks, became eminent by inventing a sauce for fast-days.

    The Art of Entertaining

    M. E. W. Sherwood

British Dictionary definitions for carme

Carme

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

2
noun
  1. a small outer satellite of the planet Jupiter with a retrograde orbit
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