sebesten (s.xiii2/4)

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sebesten (s.xiii2/4)

[gdw]

[ FEW: 19,155b sibistan; Gdf: 7,344c sebestin; GdfC: 10,643c sebeste; TL: ; DEAF:  sebestin; DMF:  sébesten; TLF:  sébeste; OED:  sebesten n.; MED:  sebesten n.; DMLBS: 2992a sebesten ]
sebestem  
Latin; Arabic

s.

1 bot. fruit sebesten plum, fruit of the Assyrian plumtree
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et oigne l'en le ventrail [unguento] Stephanonis, le quel l'en fet en tele manere: figues secches, uves passes, sebesten, branca ursina, squilla ou ongnions comunes et les mete l'en temprer en vin fort et en oile .iij. jors  i 219
( c.1300; MS: s.xvi2 )  scebestem: sebestem  392.380
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