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
Yoghourt and Soured Milk.—Yoghourt is another fermented milk, and is related to the matzoon of Armenia, the gioddu of Sardinia, and the leben of Egypt.
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
In summer they supply the place of the latter by milk, leben, and fresh 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
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
"What do you bother your head so about a girl leaves you, Minnie leben," he cried.
From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass
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