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- noun The cloth
skullcap oryarmulke traditionally worn by maleJews .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In a recent episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the kippah was the punchline.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Kippah Your Head Covering Outta My Office Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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Everything hangs on him a little, except his kippah, which is always firmly ratcheted to his head.
What Keeps Us Awake 2009
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Everything hangs on him a little, except his kippah, which is always firmly ratcheted to his head.
What Keeps Us Awake 2009
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Today, a kippah is a powerful symbol of Jewish identity which cannot be underestimated.
Hirhurim - Musings 2009
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Totally Jewish report that: Wearing a kippah and his long Shabbat coat, Michael Bookarz was walking home from La Fiesta restaurant on Golders Green Road on Saturday night when he was set upon by two hooded attackers.
More anti-Seimitic attacks in London Not a sheep 2009
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Well! There goes the kippah/skullcap dignity of my co-religionists/neighbourhood.
Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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On a bright afternoon recently in Kazimierz a boy in a kippah skullcap walked along the street where a few hours earlier a golf cart filled with tourists had trundled past.
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Rosselli's colleagues at McKinsey & Co. gave him a hard time about his kippah.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Kippah Your Head Covering Outta My Office Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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But when the throngs saw me in a kippah they assumed I must have been involved in releasing the bomb -- and so they attacked me.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life Rabbi Avi Weiss 2011
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But when the throngs saw me in a kippah they assumed I must have been involved in releasing the bomb -- and so they attacked me.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life Rabbi Avi Weiss 2011
reesetee commented on the word kippah
See yarmulke.
April 17, 2008