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Synonyms for kosher

Grammar : Adj
Spell : koh-sher
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkoʊ ʃər

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Définition of kosher

Origin :
  • "ritually fit or pure" (especially of food), 1851, from Yiddish kosher, from Hebrew kasher "fit, proper, lawful," from base of kasher "was suitable, proper." Generalized sense of "correct, legitimate" is from 1896.
  • adj ritually proper
  • adj legitimate
Example sentences :
  • At the best there would be no kosher food in the house any more.
  • Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
  • Show a treif gendarme a kosher coin, and he will be shivering with ague.
  • Extract from : « The Imported Bridegroom » by Abraham Cahan
  • In Ramsgate I enjoy myself; there's a kosher butcher, and all the people I know.
  • Extract from : « Ghetto Tragedies » by Israel Zangwill
  • The same way with the kosher meat idea: his business was the packing business, and the firm wasn't trying any ventures.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of an American Citizen » by Robert Herrick
  • The next time I saw the manager I asked him about sausage and kosher meat, and he scowled.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of an American Citizen » by Robert Herrick
  • My little schemes of making sausages on a large scale and kosher meat had been turned down.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of an American Citizen » by Robert Herrick
  • The Schunemanns took to peddling our kosher meat in Chicago, and worked up a good trade.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of an American Citizen » by Robert Herrick
  • I began to talk about the kosher meat business the Schunemann brothers were handling for me, and I could see Gooch's eyes open.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of an American Citizen » by Robert Herrick
  • Spiel, kosher, ganof and matzoh are examples; their vowels remain un-American.
  • Extract from : « The American Language » by Henry L. Mencken
  • Arrangements will be made for the provision of Kosher food when possible.
  • Extract from : « With the Judans in the Palestine Campaign » by J. H. (John Henry) Patterson

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