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Salome   /səlˈoʊmi/   Listen
Salome

noun
1.
Woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist.





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"Salome" Quotes from Famous Books



... let her pen slip to the bare floor and gazed before her wistfully. The room was in the dreary early stages of unpacking, but it was not of that Miss Salome was thinking. Her eyes were gazing out of the window at a thin gray trail of smoke against the blue ground of the sky. She could see the little house, too, brown and tiny and a little battered. She could see the clothes-line, and count easily enough the pairs of little stockings ...
— The Very Small Person • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... piece of ham I was conveying to my mouth. Had Reuben betrayed me! What did this talk of "mother" and "Salome" mean? When he first spoke the word "mother," I had paid no particular attention to it; but when coupled with that other name, it took a ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey


Words linked to "Salome" :   professional dancer, terpsichorean, dancer


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