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n. - European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots.

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  • Nay, here are oaks and galingale: the hum of housing bees
  • Ingredients: One swan (with giblets); lard; salt; broth; toasted breadcrumbs; ginger; galingale (an aromatic root); red wine vinegar
  • Himera, the galingale hummed over by the bees, and the pine that dropped her cones, and Amaryllis in her cave, and Bombyca with her feet of carven ivory.
  • On fine sunny days, it pleases us to hop through galingale and sedge and to sing while we swim; and when Zeus is pouring down his rain, we join our lively voices to the...
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