parve
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"Unlike the butter-rich, non-Jewish babka, Jewish versions were usually kept parve by using oil," which meant they were "firmer and slightly drier than brioche."
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2022
“He wants to be in the most parve place in the world.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015
I have 4� sets of dishes and silver: meat, dairy, just a few parve, or neutral pieces, and a special meat set and dairy set for Passover.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The rabbis, however, allow for "neutral," or parve foods�vegetables, grain products, fish, eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus, when Vergil says Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem, he is exhorting the beatific infant to the exercise of the faculty of comparison.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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