Selem in Podcasts
conceptA traditional game involving sending flowers with attached rhymes and meanings within the Ottoman Empire.
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Short Stuff: Victorian Flower Language
Coded messages through flowers goes back to the 1600s, at least in the Ottoman Empire, when they had a tradition called Selem or Selem, S-E-L-A-M, which was a game where between the members of the harem of Constantinople, where they would send flowers attached with like rhymes and meanings and stuff like that to communicate with one another.