What is "carraway"

Usage examples of "carraway".

As for Spices, he doth not only prefer home-bred things before them, but condemns them for vanities, and so shuts them out of his family, esteeming that there is no spice comparable of herbs to Rosemary, Thyme, Savory, Mints: and of seeds to Fennel and Carraway.

He had shirts for Daisy, magic leverage for Wolfsheim, a delicate and dangerously vulnerable Ali-Gatsby shuffle for Tom Buchanan and no answers at all for Nick Carraway, the word junkie.

My sensible aunt, with her thick ankles and dish-water blonde hair, must have recognized that quality in the newborn she had given birth to in New Orleans, and committed the only romantic act of her life by deciding that Arielle was not a Mary or a Louise, family names that had suited Carraways until then.

That description of Gatsby by Nick Carraway -- of Scott, by Fitzgerald -- might just as well be of J.

Arm in arm we gained the Carraway and met with two more of our moneymen, Buck Specie and Sterling Dun.

Fielding Goodney was already in attendance at the Dimmesdale Room when I strolled into the Carraway a little after six.

Anyway, I then had to leave the girl, God damn it, and bolt across town to clock up an hour or two at a reception in the Carraway thrown by Fielding Goodney for all our moneymen.

I was his namesake, and somehow, being the second Nick Carraway in a family where the name had a certain mystique had forced that mystique upon me.