kümmel
Americannoun
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a colorless cordial or liqueur flavored with cumin, caraway seeds, etc., made especially in the Baltic area.
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Leyden cheese containing caraway seeds.
noun
Etymology
Origin of kümmel
1880–85; < German Kümmel, Old High German kumil, apparently dissimilated variant of kumin cumin
Example Sentences
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Mrs. "Temperance" Fisher, "only female wholesale liquor dealer in England," purveyoress of kümmel to the House of Lords, electrified Tory topers last week by announcing that she now receives periodic shipments of Soviet vodka.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another perfect combination, if you can take it, is imported kümmel with any caraway-seeded cheese, or cream cheese with a handy saucer of caraway seeds.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton
Milwaukee Kümmelkäse has made a name for itself as a nibble most suitable with most drinks, from beer to imported kümmel liqueur.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton
On a side-table there are various plates of anchovies, cheese, chopped onions, raw salt herring, and bread, all in diminutive slices, while glasses of corresponding size surround a bottle of kümmel, or cordial of caraway-seed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
I added a bottle of kümmel to the ham and the rye bread.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
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