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English
Etymology
From Arabic حَمَّام (ḥammām).
Pronunciation
Noun
hummum (plural hummums)
- A Turkish bath.
1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, , London: William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:a curious summer-house, excelling all his other for prospect, painting, hummum, waterworks, and a forest which is stored with game of several sorts
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:Of all those knights and baronets, lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted upon the walls of the famous hall of the Upper Temple, was there no philanthropist good-natured enough to devise a set of Hummums for the benefit of the lawyers, his fellows and successors?
- Alternative form of humhum (“towelling fabric”)
References
“hummum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.