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baba au rhum
a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked in a rum syrup -
baba ghanouj
a Middle Eastern dish, a puree of broiled eggplant usually with garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, eaten with pita as an appetizer -
baba gannouj
a salad of cooked eggplant, olive oil, garlic, etc. -
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ali baba
(in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) a poor woodcutter who discovers that the magic words "open sesame" will open the doors of the cave containing the treasure of the Forty Thieves -
open sesame
any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.