Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Prepared without meat, milk, or their derivatives and therefore permissible to be eaten with meat or dairy dishes according to dietary laws.

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  • adjective Judaism, of food That has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.

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  • adjective containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Yiddish pareve, of West Slavic origin; akin to Czech párový, paired, dual, from pár, a pair, from Middle High German pār, from Latin; see pair.]

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Yiddish פּאַרעוו (parev), פּאַרעווע (pareve)

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Examples

  • The Hebrew dietary term pareve [neither meat nor dairy] is used to convey the concept of the universal.

    Hannah Wilke. 2009

  • Today's hechshers are practically blaring by comparison, and many mainstream producers now spell out the words "pareve," meaning neither dairy nor meat, and "kosher" itself.

    The Kosher Conversion 2005

  • Today's hechshers are practically blaring by comparison, and many mainstream producers now spell out the words "pareve," meaning neither dairy nor meat, and "kosher" itself.

    The Kosher Conversion 2005

  • If you're lactose intolerant, anything marked "pareve" is for you.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Fish is also a practical choice for the holiday table - especially for Rosh Hashanah, when fish is cooked and served with the head on to symbolize the head of the new year - because it is pareve, meaning it can be eaten with meat or dairy, and because it can be light and lovely, served hot or cold and sauced in so many ways.

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - Homepage 2009

  • The nation of Avraham's children will never be "pareve" in the eyes of the world.

    Your Moral Leader 2008

  • I was headed to Brookline, the clean little disproportionately-Jewish town I'd lived in during graduate school, where if you ain't pareve, you ain't nothin'.

    The Most Wonderfullest Christmas Ever Con Chapman 2011

  • To make the frosting, whip up the butter (I used a combination of shortening and margarine to make this pareve) ...

    Orange Candy Corn Bars Marni 2009

  • This spinach kugel is a dairy kugel, though it can be made pareve to serve with meat if you swap out the milk with Mocha Mix and the butter with margarine.

    Aunt Bertha's Spinach Kugel Marni 2009

  • As in, did this pareve, poorly-written, not-entirely-credible account of first-time guilt-ridden yeshiva sex really ignite the firestorm of controversy that has dominated newspapers, blogs and Shabbat table conversation?

    Shira Dicker: Hook Up vs. Shut Up: Yeshiva University’s Sex Story Controversy Shira Dicker 2011

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