kesar

plural kesars

1. obsoleteObsolete form of Kaiser.

   But moſt were ſtampt, and in their metal bare The antique ſhapes of kings and keſars ſtraung & rare.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 273

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   Now no more of winters biting, Filth in trench from fall to spring, Summers full of sweat and fighting For the Kesar or the King.

   1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] VIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, stanza 3, page 23, lines 5–6

1. South AsiauncountablecookingSaffron.

   kesar milk

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   The newly emerging Muslim middle class would offer ‘kesar’ tea after marriages or other formal feasts, replacing the traditional tea leaves with kesar strands. […]Over the years Pampur’s apiculture, claimed by many to create the best medicinal honey in the region, that is, kesar honey, has also prospered.

   2001, Arun Kaul, “Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir”, in The Human Landscape, page 228

   Synonyms: zafrani