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adjective
Kosher  adj.  
1.
Ceremonially clean, according to Jewish law; applied to food, esp. to meat of animals slaughtered according to the requirements of Jewish law. Opposed to tref. For food to be officially kosher, it must be certified fit to eat by a Rabbi, according to Jewish ritual law; as, kosher food. Hence, Designating a shop, store, house, etc., where such food is sold or used; as, a kosher restaurant.
Synonyms: cosher, ritually fit, sanctioned.
2.
Hence: Proper; seemly; appropriate; legitimate; as, it's not kosher to do it that way. (colloq.)
3.
Genuine. (colloq.)





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"Kosher" Quotes from Famous Books



... something of their early sanctity and meaning arose strongly within me one evening when I was attending a Passover Feast to which I had been invited by a Jewish family in the neighborhood, where the traditional and religious significance of the woman's daily activity was still retained. The kosher food the Jewish mother spread before her family had been prepared according to traditional knowledge and with constant care in the use of utensils; upon her had fallen the responsibility to make all ready according to Mosaic instructions that the great crisis ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... 4,000 years for Crisco. It conforms to the strict Dietary Laws of the Jews. It is what is known in the Hebrew language as a "parava," or neutral fat. Crisco can be used with both "milchig" and "fleichig" (milk and flesh) foods. Special Kosher packages, bearing the seals of Rabbi Margolies of New York, and Rabbi Lifsitz of Cincinnati, are sold the Jewish trade. But all Crisco is Kosher and all of the ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil
... the same to me if it's TREIF or KOSHER. I don't recognize any difference. But what can I do with my stomach! The devil knows what stuff they'll feed you sometimes at these stations. You'll pay some three or four roubles, and then you'll spend a hundred roubles on the doctors curing yourself. But maybe you, now, ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... several pounds of kosher meat and put it into the ice-box—that is to say, on the window-sill of their fifth-floor flat. Other ice-box these East Side sweaters' tenements have none. And it does well enough in cold weather, unless the cat gets around, or, ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... immaculate, cleanly, neat; chaste, pure, virtuous, undefiled, incorrupt, uncontaminated; shapely, well-proportioned; kosher (Jewish). ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


Words linked to "Kosher" :   nutrition, nutriment, cosher, sustenance, colloquialism, aliment, nourishment


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