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Crame

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Crame
    krām (Scot.) a booth for selling goods.
Usage in the news

Demeter , Duane Reade, Demeter Fragrance Library, Mark Crames, fragrance. chaindrugreview.com

Madonna Crame, luncheon host, and Lucille Wilkinson. naplesnews.com

Usage in literature

CRAME, a booth, a merchant's shop. "Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete" by Sir Walter Scott

Come, Kate, you crame of hell's delights, fill till I give it. "The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two" by William Carleton

An', Jimmy agra, don't be too lavish upon their Munster crame; they say it's apt to give people the ague. "The Poor Scholar" by William Carleton

Many a crame must have been emptied ere such a number of manes and long tails could have been busked out. "The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself" by David Macbeth Moir

Bedad, it's praties an' crame we hev fur tay, sure, ivvery day in the wake! "Young Tom Bowling" by J.C. Hutcheson

An', Jimmy agra, don't be too lavish upon their Munsther crame; they say 'tis apt to give people the ague. "Irish Books and Irish People" by Stephen Gwynn

He cudden't ate th' r-rich crame out iv th' di'mon'-studded saucer. "Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War" by Finley Peter Dunne

Many a crame must have been emptied ere such a number of manes and long tails could have been busked out. "The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith" by D. M. Moir

The king of his kind and the crame of all charity. "The Book of Humorous Verse" by Various

How's the crame market? "The Turn of the Road" by Rutherford Mayne

Usage in poetry
O the girls began to scrame
And upset the milk and crame;
And the honorable gintlemin, they cursed and swore:
And Mitchil of Belfast,
'Twas he that looked aghast,
When they roasted him in effigy by Shannon shore.