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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
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Everything hangs on him a little, except his kippah, which is always firmly ratcheted to his head.
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Everything hangs on him a little, except his kippah, which is always firmly ratcheted to his head.
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Today, a kippah is a powerful symbol of Jewish identity which cannot be underestimated.
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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.
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Well! There goes the kippah/skullcap dignity of my co-religionists/neighbourhood.
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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
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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
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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
reesetee commented on the word kippah
See yarmulke.
April 17, 2008