salt
/sɑlt/ adjective C2- Of water: containing salt, saline. · Why the Sea is Salt
- Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted. · salt beef
- Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea. · a salt marsh
- Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea. · salt grass
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use. · a salt mine· The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
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“Count,” added Mercédès with a supplicating glance, “there is a beautiful Arabian custom, which makes eternal friends of those who have together eaten bread and salt under the same roof.”
“I know it, madame,” replied the count; “but we are in France, and not in Arabia, and in France eternal friendships are as rare as the custom of dividing bread and salt with one another.”
## The Salt Merchant and His Ass
A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt.
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