matzo
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Definition of matzo
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
“Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover.”
“Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night. Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup.”
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noun
-
(uncountable)Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
“Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover.”
“Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night. Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup.”
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(countable)A piece of the above bread.
“[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
When stressed on the first syllable, from Yiddish מצה (matse), from Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá); pronunciations stressed on the second syllable are borrowed directly from Hebrew.
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