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schat·chen (s̸hät′khən)

noun

a Jewish marriage broker or matchmaker

Etymology: Yiddish shatkhn < Heb shadechan < shidekh, to arrange a marriage

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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