leben
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of leben
C17: from Arabic laban
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“I’m in dry-goods business twenty years—fifteen on Grand Stritt and five on Graham Am-yer and never ins leben do I see a seven months so big.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Two sellers of leben, or sour milk, which is extremely scarce and dear all over the Hedjaz.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
Oh shdrangely in dis leben de dings kits vorked apout, Oh voonderly Fortuna makes doorn us inside out.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
The keshk-leben is prepared by putting leben into the bourgoul instead of leaven; in other respects the process is the same.
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Loudon Douglas
The milk is immediately turned into leben, or boiled to be shaken into butter.
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Loudon Douglas
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