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kesar en · NOUN · etymology 1

(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of Kaiser.
alt 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:
- 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:

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kesars	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Borrowed from Hindustani केसर / کیسر (kesar, “saffron”), from Sanskrit केसर (késara).

(South-Asia, uncountable) Saffron.
- kesar milk
- 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: