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Kosher   Listen
noun
Kosher  n.  
1.
Kosher food; also, a kosher shop.
2.
The practise of adherence to the Jewish ritual law; used mostly in the phrase keep kosher, v. i..
keep kosher To adhere to the rules for eating only kosher food and handling it properly.





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"Kosher" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the same to me if it's TREIF or KOSHER. I don't recognize any difference. But what can I do with my stomach! The devil knows what stuff they'll feed you sometimes at these stations. You'll pay some three or four roubles, and then you'll spend ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... and scouring powders which contain no animal fat are permitted to be used in washing utensils. Kosher soap, made according to directions for making hard soap, may be used in washing ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
... Kukor. In all the five years he had lived at the Barber flat, she had continually watched over him, plying him with medicine, pulling his baby teeth, mending his ragged clothes, teaching him to cook and do housework, feeding him kosher dainties, and—for reasons better hinted at than made plain—keeping a sharp lookout in the matter of his ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... early sanctity and meaning arose strongly within me one evening when I was attending a Passover Feast to which I had been invited by a Jewish family in the neighborhood, where the traditional and religious significance of the woman's daily activity was still retained. The kosher food the Jewish mother spread before her family had been prepared according to traditional knowledge and with constant care in the use of utensils; upon her had fallen the responsibility to make ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams


Words linked to "Kosher" :   sustenance, clean, nutrition, Judaism, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, colloquialism, victuals, cosher, proper, alimentation


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