‖ sarrasin
(ˈsærəzɪn)
In quots. sar(r)azin, sarassin.
[a. F. sarrasin (16th c.), for blé sarrasin ‘Saracen wheat’.]
Buckwheat.
| 1621 Lodge Summary Du Bartas i. 135 That graine, which we call Sarazin Wheate, or Turky Wheate. [1687 Sarazin corn: see Saracen 3.] 1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Britt. I. 308 A small quantity of black bread, made of sarazin. 1865 Pall Mall G. 30 Aug. 3/2 The fields of sainfoin and sarassin. 1888 19th Cent. June 836 The Russian peasant will not always sell his wheat and live on sarrazin and rye. |