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Brewer's: Saracen Wheat
(French, Blé-sarrasin). Buckwheat; so called because it was brought into Spain by the Moors or Saracens. (See Buckwheat.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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