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Matzo

//ˈmɑtsə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. uncountable

    "Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover."

  2. 2
    brittle flat bread eaten at Passover wordnet
  3. 3
    A piece of the above bread. countable

    "[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."

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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