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Pareve
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- 1 Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. Jewish, not-comparable
"My mom made a pareve casserole with soy hot dogs."
- 2 Neutral, bland, inoffensive. broadly, figuratively, not-comparable
"Judaism in Cranford [New Jersey] was pareve, neither milk nor meat; it had no edge to it. I didn't see this for my life. I was idealistic. I wanted to deal with issues of faith and morality, and all they were worried about were their High Holiday seats. But then I found out I really liked the contact I had with people's day-to-day problems."
- 1 containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish פּאַרעוו, פּאַרעווע (parev, pareve), of uncertain origin. Suggestions include: * Perhaps from Middle High German bar (“bare, naked”), from Old High German bar, and thus cognate with English bare. * Perhaps from a West Slavic source such as Czech párový (“occurring in pairs”), because according to Jewish dietary laws, meat and milk cannot be combined, but as pareve food contains neither, it can be paired with either meat dishes or milk dishes.
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